Gothic Tales - Couverture souple

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014043741X ISBN 13 : 9780140437416

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Gaskell Elizabeth

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 doppelgänger 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) wrote her first novel, MARY BARTON, in 1848 as a distraction from her sorrow at the death of her only son in infancy. It won the attention of Dickens and was followed by 5 other full-length novels as well as numerous short stories and novellas.Laura Kranzler has written on Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and has published a novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 014043741X
• ISBN 13: 9780140437416
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416