The Virgin of the Seven Daggers : And Other Stories.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Vernon.

Contributor:

Worth, Aaron.

Series:

Oxford World's Classics Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022.

Summary:

This selection brings together the fantastic Gothic stories of Vernon Lee, including the landmark collection Hauntings, first published in 1890, along with six additional tales and the 1880 essay 'Faustus and Helena'.

Contents:

Cover

Series page

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers and Other Stories

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

A Childhood in Cosmopolis

'Culture-Supernatural'

Mythologies

Brain Phantoms and Maniac Frowns

Mind Reading

Note on the text

Select bibliography

Biography and Letters

Critical Studies

Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics

A chronology of vernon lee

The tales

Winthrop's adventure

I

II

III

IV

Oke of okehurst

or, the phantom lover

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

Amour dure: passages from the diary of spiridion trepka

Part I

Part II

Dionea

A wicked voice

The legend of madame krasinska

The virgin of the seven daggers: A moorish ghost story of the seventeenth century

Prince alberic and the snake lady

XI

XII

XIII

The Doll

Marsyas in flanders

Appendix A: Faustus and Helena

Notes on the supernatural in art

Appendix B

Preface

Explanatory notes

Abbreviations

Amour dure

The virgin of the seven daggers

Appendices: Faustus and helena: notes on the supernatural in art

Preface to hauntings

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Other Format:

Print version: Lee, Vernon The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

ISBN:

9780192574497