Gothic Tales
Autor: | Gaskell, Elizabeth |
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EAN: | 9780140437416 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 416 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Kranzler, Laura |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.02.2001 |
Schlagworte: | Literature - Classics / Criticism |
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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.