Gothic Tales

Gothic Tales
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 422
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101199879
ISBN-13 : 1101199873
Rating : 4/5 (873 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Gothic Tales by : Elizabeth Gaskell

Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"The curse—the curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self' An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel—or devil. Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us. This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and an appendix giving a reader's response to 'Disappearances'.


Gothic Tales Related Books

Gothic Tales
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Elizabeth Gaskell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-02-01 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'"The curse—the curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self' An encounter with th
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Chris Baldick
Categories: English fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dines
American Gothic Tales
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Various
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-12-01 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This remarkable anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing, gives us an intriguing and entertaining look at how the gothic imaginat
Seven Gothic Tales
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Isak Dinesen
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1939 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Japanese Gothic Tales
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Kyoka Izumi
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-06-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Resisting the various forms of realism popular during the Meiji "enlightenment," Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) was among the most popular writers who continued to wor