The House of a Thousand Candles: A Will, a House and a Year of Waiting
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Eugène Delacroix, John Everett Millais and John Collier. A young man must live a year in his dead grandfather's unfinished Indiana house to inherit it, and the house has secret passages, a caretaker who lies and somebody moving about at night. It was one of the best-selling novels in America in 1906 and has been filmed three times. This edition includes a gallery of 50 plates bound with the text, with paintings by Goya, Tissot, Ralli and Delaroche, alongside six restored and coloured illustrations.
Complete and unabridged, with 50 full-page plates by Eugène Delacroix, John Everett Millais and John Collier. A young man must live a year in his dead grandfather's unfinished Indiana house to inherit it, and the house has secret passages, a caretaker who lies and somebody moving about at night. ...
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Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was an American novelist and diplomat born in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became one of the leading Indiana writers of his day and served as United States minister to Paraguay, Venezuela and Nicaragua. His works include The House of a Thousand Candles, Otherwise Phyllis, Zelda Dameron, and The Port of Missing Men.
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was an American novelist and diplomat born in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became one of the leading Indiana writers of his day and served as United States minister to Paraguay, Venezuela and Nicaragua. His works include The House of a Thousand...
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