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Download as PDF; Printable version ... Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British ... Her library was left to the British Institute of Florence and can ...
"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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The Vernon Manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1) is a medieval English manuscript, written in the dialect spoken in the English West Midlands around 1400, [1] that is now in the Bodleian Library, to whom it was presented around 1677 by Colonel Edward Vernon. [1]
Vernon Evans (general) (1893–1987), officer in the U.S. Army Vernon W. Evans (1895–1975), Massachusetts politician and educator Vernon Lee Evans (born 1949), Maryland murderer
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.