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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.
Subjects:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Horror tales, English.
Gothic fiction.
Short stories.
Table of 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.