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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 doppelganger 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Gothic Tales
• Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780140437416
• ISBN: 014043741X
• ID: 04024146
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 135 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. August 2000

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