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Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics.
"A Wicked Voice" by Vernon Lee recounts the tale of a 19th-century composer named Magnus. He is in Venice to compose music for his opera, Ogier the Dane.In Venice, however, his inspiration weakens "in the stagnant lagoon of the past," as the culture and history of Venice confuse his musical ideals: "It was as if there arose out of its shallow waters a miasma of long-dead melodies, which ...
Ash-Tree Press is a Canadian company that publishes supernatural and horror literature.. The press has reprinted notable collections of ghostly stories by such writers as R. H. Malden, A. N. L. Munby, L. T. C. Rolt, Margery Lawrence, and Eleanor Scott.
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Il Palmerino lies in the valley of the Affrico [] (a right tributary of the Arno) in Settignano, in the hills below Fiesole, to the north-east of the city of Florence.. The first documented owner was the fifteenth-century Florentine goldsmith Ottaviano d'Antonio di Duccio, the brother of Agostino di Duccio (who is incorrectly described by Giorgio Vasari as brother to Luca Della Robbia).
Following this copycat crime, when the book went into reprints, it sold more than 500,000 copies, and Vian was tried for translating "objectionable material" (as Vernon Sullivan was still nowhere to be found). Vian ended up paying a fine of 100,000 francs, and in the summer of 1950 the French government banned any further sales of the book.
Vernon Lee Scarborough (born 1950) [1] is an American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his research and publications on settlement, land use and water management practices of archaic and Pre-industrial society.
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