Gothic TalesPenguin, 1 de fev. de 2001 - 416 páginas 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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Disappearances | xxxv |
The Old Nurses Story | 9 |
The Squires Story | 31 |
The Poor Clare | 47 |
The Doom of the Griffiths | 101 |
Lois the Witch | 137 |
The Crooked Branch | 225 |
Curious if True | 269 |
The Grey Woman | 285 |
APPENDIX | 339 |
NOTES | 340 |
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