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The lamplighter : a novel / Anthony O'Neill.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.O54 L36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, Anthony, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy teachers.
- Philosophy teachers--Fiction.
- Edinburgh (Scotland)--Fiction.
- Edinburgh (Scotland).
- Serial murders--Fiction.
- Serial murders.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2003]
- Summary:
- Elegantly written and ingeniously executed, "The Lamplighter" inhabits the pre-Freudian era and explores the dangers of the suppressed imagination. Set in 19th-century Edinburgh, it features a professor of philosophy and his assistant as they unravel a series of gruesome murders and their connection to a troubled young woman.
- ISBN:
- 0743243498
- OCLC:
- 50696500
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