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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520 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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