First published in the year 1909; the present novel 'The Lady of the Shroud' by Bram Stoker is an epistolary novel; narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters; but mainly Rupert. The initial sections; leading up to the reading of the uncle's will; told by other characters; suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family; and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.
First published in the year 1909; the present novel 'The Lady of the Shroud' by Bram Stoker is an epistolary novel; narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters; but mainly Rupert. The initial sections; leading up to the reading of the uncle's will; told by other characters; suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family; and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.