Gothic Tales - Brossura

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 014043741X ISBN 13: 9780140437416

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

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Book by Gaskell Elizabeth

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 014043741X
• ISBN 13: 9780140437416
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Redattore: Kranzler Laura