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Il giovane Rupert St Leger eredita da suo zio una ricca proprietà, ma per entrarne in possesso deve prima vivere per un anno nel suo castello sulla costa della Dalmazia. Un mistero però abita il castello delle Montagne Azzurre: dall'acqua scura del mare, nelle lunghe notti, esce, come una Venere armata di terrore, una donna dalle vesti bagnate, pallida, emaciata, alla ricerca di calore. Rupert l'accoglie, e notte dopo notte se ne innamora. Ma chi è veramente quella donna? Una storia d'amore caposaldo del genere horror, narrata dal celebre autore di "Dracula". Postfazione di Riccardo Reim.
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- Pagine: 312
- Data di uscita: 25-01-2018
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This is another book I started reading, as a kid, at somebody else's house and didn't get a chance to finish (long story!). It's taken well over 50 years for me to get around to tying off this "loose end" in my reading experience, but I've finally done so. As my rating indicates, though, the result
Really, really, REALLY bad. The story goes on and on and on and ON until you run out of ons, well past the point where one would rationally resolve it (i.e., where the mystery of The Lady is concluded). Most of the going on relates to Stoker gushing in embarrassing and tedious detail about the perfe Leggi tutto
This book is only 234 pages long... and that's about a 100 pages too long. Though some parts are interesting and have Stoker's gift for describing the exotic and the eerie, far too much of the novel focuses on the military and political life of Rupert, the hero, who is as flat a piece of tall, dark
A truly dreadful book in so many ways - theatrical, sentimental, nonsensical, militaristic, imperialist, patronising (to women and to the peoples of the Balkans) and often leaden. Beyond being one for Bram Stoker completists - and the early promise of creepy thrills is nothing but a fraud designed to Leggi tutto
A dry and dull read.
It actually very well, but only up until the mystery of the lady of the shroud was revealed. What followed was a litany of how perfect Rupert is, how beautiful the queen is, and so on. And from then on, it's one tedious read.
The first three quarters of the book was quite gothic, a phantom lady dressed in a shroud, castles, underground crypts, everything that makes for a decent gothic novels. Then it turns into a fairly decent adventure story. Then books7 and 8 occur which only an true fan of Stoker would plow onward.I s Leggi tutto
When my friend gave me this book, we expected it to be fairly bad. After all, everyone has heard of 'Dracula', but who has heard of 'The Lady in the Shroud'? I'm glad I decided to give it a shot. It's an unconventional romance novel, set against a Gothic backdrop.
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