Gothic Tales
$25.81
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
13 September 2000
Summary
Whispers of the Unseen: Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140437416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014043741X |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| 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: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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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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