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Gothic Tales

By Elizabeth Gaskell
Edited by Laura Kranzler

By Elizabeth Gaskell
Edited by Laura Kranzler

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Feb 01, 2001 | ISBN 9780140437416

Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell
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About Gothic Tales

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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About Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in 1810, but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England. In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell, who became well known as the minister of the… More about Elizabeth Gaskell

Product Details

Category: Gothic & Horror | Fiction Classics

Paperback | $17.00
Published by Penguin Classics
Feb 01, 2001 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9780140437416
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Table Of Contents

Edited by Laura Kranzler

Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Texts
Disappearances
The Old Nurse’s Story
The Squire’s Story
The Poor Clare
The Doom of the Griffiths
Lois the Witch
The Crooked Branch
Curious, if True
The Grey Woman
Appendix
Notes

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