{"product_id":"2940150796560","title":"Uncle Silas (Annotated)","description":"Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller book by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as an early example of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous touches), but does show a strong interest in the occult and in the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist, philosopher and Christian mystic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work is a first person narrative told from the point of view of the teenaged Maud Ruthyn, an heiress living with her sombre, reclusive father Austyn Ruthyn in their mansion at Knowl. She gradually becomes aware of the existence of Silas Ruthyn, a black sheep uncle whom she has never met, who was once an infamous rake and gambler but is now apparently a fervently reformed Christian. Silas's past holds a dark mystery, which she gradually learns from her father and from her worldly, cheerful cousin Lady Monica: the suspicious suicide of a man to whom Silas owed an enormous gambling debt, which took place within a locked, apparently impenetrable room in Silas's mansion at Bartram-Haugh. Austyn is firmly convinced of his brother's innocence; Maud's attitude to Uncle Silas (whom we do not meet for the first 200 pages of the book) wavers repeatedly between trusting in her father's judgment, and growing fear and uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition has been formatted for your NOOK, with an active table of contents.  It has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, plot summary, allusions, references, adaptations, biographical information, and a bibliography of his major works.","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075745890544,"sku":"2940150796560","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150796560_p0.jpg?v=1763753135","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150796560","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}