Elizabeth Gaskell

Gothic Tales

Herausgeber: Kranzler, Laura

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell's novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780140437416
• ISBN-10: 014043741X
• Artikelnr.: 21617148

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) wrote her first novel, MARY BARTON, in 1848 as a distraction from her sorrow at the death of her only son in infancy. It won the attention of Dickens and was followed by 5 other full-length novels as well as numerous short stories and novellas. Laura Kranzler has written on Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf and has published a novel.

Inhaltsangabe

Edited by Laura Kranzler
Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Texts
Disappearances
The Old Nurse's Story
The Squire's Story
The Poor Clare
The Doom of the Griffiths
Lois the Witch
The Crooked Branch
Curious, if True
The Grey Woman
Appendix
Notes