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The Wyvern Mystery

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  1. Alice Maybell

    6:34

  2. The Vale of Carwell

    8:01

  3. The Grange

    14:24

  4. The Old Squire and Alice Maybell

    16:05

  5. The Terrace Garden

    18:14

  6. The Old Squire Unlike Himself

    14:08

  7. The Squires Eldest Son Comes Home

    16:58

  8. Never Did Run Smooth

    12:48

  9. in which the Squire Loses His Gold Headed Cane

    12:24

  10. The Drive Over Cressley Common by Moonlight

    12:19

  11. Home

    14:27

  12. The Omen of Carwell Grange

    15:39

  13. An Inspection of Carwell Grange

    15:14

  14. A Letter

    10:17

  15. Harry Arrives

    8:18

  16. A Party of Three

    9:05

  17. Mildred Tarnley’s Warning Story

    23:07

  18. The Brothers’ Walk

    16:24

  19. Coming In

    14:38

  20. Harry Appears at the Grange

    14:28

  21. Harry’s Beer and Conversation

    15:50

  22. The Trout

    7:21

  23. The Visitor

    16:44

  24. The Summons

    27:16

  25. Lilly Dogger is Sent to Bed

    11:31

  26. The Lady has her Tea

    20:49

  27. Through the House

    8:15

  28. The Bell Rings

    14:48

  29. Tom is Ordered Up

    13:33

  30. The Old Soldier Grows More Friendly and Frightens Mrs. Tarnley

    22:28

  31. News From Cressley Common

    13:52

  32. An Unlooked-for Return

    19:07

  33. Charles Fairfield Alone

    11:21

  34. Awake

    17:24

  35. Restless

    17:44

  36. Through the Wall

    19:32

  37. A Messenger

    16:41

  38. Unreasonable Bertha

    13:33

  39. An Abduction

    12:44

  40. Pursuit

    9:02

  41. Day-Twilight-Darkness

    9:12

  42. Hatherton

    9:50

  43. The Welcome

    8:49

  44. The Wykford Doctor

    7:13

  45. Speech Returns

    9:40

  46. Harry Drinks a Glass and Spills a Glass

    10:11

  47. Home to Wyvern

    11:38

  48. A Twilight Visit

    17:32

  49. The Heir of the Fairfields

    17:21

  50. Bertha Velderkaust

    18:48

  51. Sergent-Major Archdale

    15:12

  52. A Talk With the Squire

    15:44

  53. Harry Fairfield Grows Uneasy

    12:44

  54. A Drive to Twyford

    19:43

  55. How Fares the Child?

    20:59

  56. The Old Squire Leaves Wyvern

    9:18

  57. Marjory Trevellian

    14:59

  58. The Enchanted Garden

    15:27

  59. An Old Friend

    7:00

  60. Tom Orange

    7:41

  61. The Hour and the Man

    9:22

  62. The March to Noulton Farm

    21:17

  63. A Silent Farewell

    13:41

  64. The March by Night

    14:52

  65. Conclusion

    11:37

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About this book

Alice Maybell, an orphan raised on the fringes of a proud old family, is drawn into a secret marriage with the brooding Charles Fairfield, heir to the Wyvern estate. What should be happiness curdles into fear as she begins to sense that her husband is hiding something monstrous in his past, and that the lonely house holds a danger she cannot name. Le Fanu builds his Victorian Gothic on jealousy, buried guilt, and a menacing first wife, ground he shares with Charlotte Bronte, though the mood here runs darker and the sense of entrapment sharper. Published in 1869, it is a taut study of a woman caught among the men who claim to protect her.

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish novelist and journalist celebrated for his Gothic mysteries and ghost stories. Writing from Dublin, where he ran several newspapers, he became the defining supernatural author of Victorian Ireland and a formative influence on Bram Stoker and M. R. James.

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Book facts

First published
1869
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
339
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
John, Adrian Stephens, Rachel Lintern and others