A quaint & curious volume : tales and poems of the Gothic /

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...

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Main Authors: 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)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : William Collins, 2019.
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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.
Physical Description:xiii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:9780008368876
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