Gothic Tales
by Gaskell, Elizabeth CleghornFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. Disappearances , inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; Lois the Witch , a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria; while in The Old Nurse s Story a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors. Whether darkly surreal, such as The Poor Clare , where an evil doppelgdnger is formed by a woman s bitter curse, or mischievous like Curious, if True , a playful reworking of fairy tales, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell s novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.
Table of Contents
| Chronology | |
| Introduction | |
| Further Reading | |
| Note on the Texts | |
| Disappearances | p. 1 |
| The Old Nurse's Story | p. 11 |
| The Squire's Story | p. 33 |
| The Poor Clare | p. 49 |
| The Doom of the Griffiths | p. 103 |
| Lois the Witch | p. 139 |
| The Crooked Branch | p. 227 |
| Curious, if True | p. 271 |
| The Grey Woman | p. 287 |
| Appendix | p. 341 |
| Notes | p. 342 |
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