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Fans of gothic horror will relish this spine-tingling novella from "Vernon Lee," the nom de plume of British writer Violet Paget. The story follows an...
Volume II - 1885-1889
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She ...
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 - 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supern...
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An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee—a pseudonym of Violet Paget—is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth cen...
Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations
Hauntings (1890) is a short story collection by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar o...
Spirit of Places
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. August Nemo has chosen the two most impor...
and Other Stories
I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the alta...
Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism
Notes on Places
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the Franco-British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). For over 50 years, Paget churned out works of both fiction and non...
Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Vanitas: Polite Stories" by Vernon Lee. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to...
This is no excuse for the optimistic extermination of distinguished men. It is indeed most difficult to kill genius, but there are a hundred ways of k...
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856-1935). She is known mostly for her supernatural fiction. She also wrote essays a...
With a Dedication by Amy Levy
“Laurus Nobilis” is an 1909 collection of essays on the subject of aestheticism written by Vernon Lee. Contents include: "The Use of Beauty”, �...
A Fantastic Story
The Spirit of Rome (1906) is a memoir by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar of the I...
A beautiful and deadly Italian ghost. A rescued orphan girl with mystical powers. A modern woman in love with a long-dead poet....
The Countess of Albany (1886) is a biography by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and scholar o...
Gradually the embers grew paler; the figures in the tapestry more shadowy; the columned and curtained bed loomed out vaguer; the room seemed to fill w...
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
A look at the particularities of colonial life in the South Pacific through the correspondence of two colonialists....
An empirical study of imaginative responses to music....
"The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics" by Vernon Lee is a groundbreaking exploration into the world of aesthetics and the psycho...
Being a Second Series of Essays on Sundry Æsthetical Questions
And Other Essays on the Spirit of Places
(Fantasy and Horror Classics)
Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contri...
in large print
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people...
A Romance in Five Acts
"Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five Acts" by Vernon Lee delves into the captivating world of Italian opera and theater. With a poetic flair, Lee cra...
Essays on the Gardening of Life
An incredible collection of essays about the philosophy of life and recognizing the possibilities for the good life in the most mundane things. In the...