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Eerie Victorian tales where reality blurs with the unsettling supernatural.
Gothic Tales
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- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2000
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Summary
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.
- ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’: A mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014043741X |
| Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell, Laura Kranzler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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