Gothic Tales(Penguin Classics)|报价¥132.60|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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品牌:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

基本信息

·出版社:Penguin Classics

·页码:416 页码

·出版日:2001年

·ISBN:014043741X

·条码:9780140437416

·版次:New

·装帧:平装

·英语:英语

·丛书名:Penguin Classics

内容简介

A portrait inexplicably turned to the wall ... a mysterious child who lives on the freezing moors ... a doppelganger brought to life by a woman's bitter curse. These are some of the eerie elements Elizabeth Gaskell uses to masterful effect inGothic Tales.

A writer best known for books about middle-class life in country villages and the urban social problems of Victorian England, Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives, by the tyranny men wield and the revenge women exact, and by the merging of fact and fiction, not only in literature but in everyday lives. In these nine spine-tingling tales, she adds another layer of intrigue: the abrupt appearance of the supernatural in the most ordinary of settings and the havoc it plays on human frailties.

作者简介

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) published many novels, contributed fiction to Dickens's magazineHousehold Words, and wrote an acclaimed biography of Charlotte Brontë.

Laura Kranzler received her Doctorate in Philosophy from Hertford College, Oxford.

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Book jacket

"'The curse - the curse!' I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self"An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel - or devil.Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. "Disappearances", a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, "Lois the Witch", a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while "The Grey Woman" explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us.This edition includes an introduction, chronology and explanatory notes.For more titles in the Penguin Classics range, visit Penguin Classics Bookstore.

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