Gothic Tales

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Gaskell Elizabeth, Laura Kranzler
• Assisted by: Laura Kranzler (Editor), Kranzler Laura (Editor), Laura Kranzler (Introduction), Kranzler Laura (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.08.2000
• EAN: 9780140437416
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043741-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Gothic, Classic fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary