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A quaint & curious volume : tales and poems of the Gothic / introduction by Sarah Perry.

Van Pelt Library PN6120.95.G64 Q83 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889, author.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, author.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865, author.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, author.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, author.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935, author.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, author.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889, author.
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894, author.
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, author.
Contributor:
Perry, Sarah, writer of introduction.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
Horror tales, English.
Genre:
Gothic fiction.
Short stories.
Physical Description:
xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Other Title:
Quaint and curious volume
Place of Publication:
London : William Collins, 2019.
Summary:
Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery and repels us with its violence and darkness. But who were the first practitioners of the now-prevalent genre? This curated book collects the works of such masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti and Mary Shelley, who with flickering candles, mysterious castles and chilling ravens first frightened and delighted readers.
Contents:
The lovers. The raven by Edgar Allen Poe
Porphyria's lover by Robert Browning
The song of wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
The Wedding-Knell by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wheel of fortune. The darkling thrush by Thomas Hardy
The old nurse's story by Elizabeth Gaskell
The tower. Extract from The castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The fall of the house of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
Extract from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The magician. Extract from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The body-snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
The dream woman by Wilkie Collins
The devil. Goblin marker by Christina Rossetti
The tapestried chamber by Sir Walter Scott
The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allen Poe.
ISBN:
9780008351823
0008351821
9780008368876
0008368872
OCLC:
1132202862

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