Manor by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
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"Manor" by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs is a short story published in 1884. Set in the Faroe Islands, it tells of a romantic bond between two young men, Har and Manor, that begins after Manor rescues Har from drowning. When tragedy strikes and Manor dies at sea, he returns from the grave to visit Har each night. The story uses vampirism as a metaphor for homosexuality and society's reaction to it, exploring how
love persists even when faced with destruction and death. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, 1825-1895 |
|---|---|
| Title | Manor |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_(relato) |
| Credits |
Produced by Norbert H. Langkau, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Vampires -- Fiction |
| Subject | Gay men -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35605 |
| Release Date | Mar 18, 2011 |
| Last Update | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 422 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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