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(0)Elizabeth Gaskell
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Die Damen des fiktiven Kleinstädtchens Cranford leben in vornehmer Bescheidenheit und weigern sich entschieden, die Veränderungen des 19. Jahrhunderts anzunehmen. In ihrem Alltag gibt es aber auch genug Klatsch und Tratsch, Verwirrungen, Liebeleien und überraschende Begegnungen, die ihre volle Aufmerksamkeit erfordern.
In kleinen liebevollen Episoden erzählt Elizabeth Gaskell, eine enge Freundin von Charlotte Brontë, vom Landleben im viktorianischen...
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Introduction:
"Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell"
Novels:
Mary Barton
The Moorland Cottage
Cranford
Ruth
North and South
Sylvia's Lovers
Wives and Daughters
A Dark Night's Work
Short Stories & Novellas:
Round the Sofa
My Lady Ludlow
An Accursed Race
The Doom of the Griffiths
Half a Life-Time Ago
The Poor Clare
The Half-Brothers
Cousin Phillis
Company Manners
Mr. Harrison's Confessions
The Sexton's Hero
The Grey Woman
Curious if True
Six Weeks at...
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The narrator - the old nurse of the title - is an old family retainer who has worked in the service of the same family for three generations. She tells the young children about a dark incident that she experienced in the company of the children's mother, when she was a young woman and visiting her mother's ancestral home.
This story hits all the marks of a classic ghost story: an isolated manor, creepy music sounding from a disused organ, ghostly...
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The second of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections
This excellent production lifts the curtain on some forgotten stories â€" The Scotsman
The Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 is a celebration of iconic female writers from the 19th and 20th centuries; featuring eight full-length stories relating the many experiences and complexities of womanhood. This collection brings together stories...
46) A House to Let
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In this short story by four great Victorian authors, a woman’s fascination with an abandoned house reveals mystery and intrigue within.
Written by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter, “A House to Let” tells the story of an elderly woman who moves to London for a change of scenery. Fascinated by signs of life emanating from a supposedly abandoned house, she entreats two rival...47) A House to Let
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Compiled by Charles Dickens, and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins and Adelaide Anne Procter, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London. Advised by her doctor to have a change of scenery, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by a nearby "house to let," she charges her two warring attendants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret...
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Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books' new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage, curated with Varla's sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. In the 1859 Christmas edition of his regular publication, All Year Round, Charles Dickens solicited his favorite authors to take up residence...
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"Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages" by Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously...
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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A classic collection of haunting stories by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more.
A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard.
A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship.
A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . .
This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses,...
A vengeful phantom lurks in a country graveyard.
A whaling crew becomes trapped on a haunted ship.
A human skull is kept locked in a cupboard—but sometimes at night, it screams . . .
This collection of tales transports the reader to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses,...
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Timothée Luwewe
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror is frequently supernatural, though it might also be non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a...
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Pandora's Box
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!
Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This sixth volume of "The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written" features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose...