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 doppelg nger 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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
Gothic Tales [EPUB ebook]
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 416 ● ISBN 9780141904948 ● Éditeur Laura Kranzler ● Maison d’édition Penguin Books Ltd ● Publié 2000 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2268318 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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