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An edition of Gothic Tales (2000)

Gothic tales

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Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the Witch', a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in 'The Old Nurse's Story' a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as 'The Poor Clare', where an evil doppelganger is formed by a woman's bitter curse, or mischievous like 'Curious, if True', a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

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Publisher
New York, Penguin
Language
English
Pages
366

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Cover of: Gothic Tales
Gothic Tales
2008, Penguin Group UK
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Gothic Tales
Gothic Tales
September 1, 2003, E-Classics
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Cover of: Gothic tales
Gothic tales
2000, New York, Penguin
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Table of Contents

Disappearances
The old nurse's story
The squire's story
The Poor Clare
The doom of the Griffiths
Lois the witch
The crooked branch
Curious, if true
The grey woman.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London
Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4710 .A4 2000, PR4710.A4 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxvi, 366 p. ;
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3966976M
Internet Archive
gothictalespengu00eliz
ISBN 10
014043741X
LCCN
2001272783
OCLC/WorldCat
45437166, 43968377
Library Thing
55078
Goodreads
182385

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