Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Description
A British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature.
Books
A House to Let
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century
The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb]( / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Samuel Lowgood's revenge / Mary E. Braddon -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Lost hearts / M. R. James -- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]( / Ambrose Bierce -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- A vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The red room / H. G. Wells.
Curses
Contents: Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bloch The Doom of the Griffiths - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell ] You Know Willie - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell Trouble with Water - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ] Mad Monkton - novella by Wilkie Collins Long Chromachy of the Crows - shortstory by Seumas MacManus The Little Black Train - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman The Curse of the Catafalques - novelette by F. Anstey A Séance in Summer - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr. ] Transformations - shortstory by Christopher Fahy In Dark New England Days - shortstory by Sarah Orne Jewett The Messenger - novelette by Robert W. Chambers Or the Grasses Grow - shortstory by Avram Davidson The Dollar - shortstory by Morgan Robertson A Hunger in the Blood - novelette by Talmage Powell
Lois the Witch
Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God.Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle's family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire.When the local Pastor's daughters are contorted and convulsed by apparently satanic powers, the whole town is whipped into a hysterical witch hunt. And when Lois's cousins start to resent her presence in their household, life becomes precarious and an old woman's curse returns to haunt her.
Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century)
Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale. Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. [Dr. Heidegger's experiment]( Howe's masquerade. Disraeli, Benjamin. Ixion in heaven. Poe, E.A. [Fall of the House of Usher]( [Pit and the Pendulum]( [Eleonora]( Gaskell, Elizabeth C. The squire's story. Brown, Dr. John. Rab and his friends. Dickens, Charles. The seven poor travellers. Trollope, Anthony. Malachi's cove. Meredith, George. The punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder. White, W.H. Mr Whittaker's retirement. Morris, William. The story of the unknown church. Garnett, Richard. The dumb oracle. Harte, F.B. Miggles. Tennessee's partner. The Iliad of Sandy Bar. Mliss. Stevenson, R.L. Markheim. Thrawn Janet. Providence and the guitar. Gissing, George. Christopherson. Coleridge, Mary. The king is dead, long live the king. Crackenthorpe, Hubert. Saint-Pé.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Intertwining fact and story, The Life of Charlotte Bronte takes the reader by one hand and Charlotte Bronte by the other to run rampant through the making of one of the greatest authoresses of all time. Follow Charlotte from her birthplace of Thornton as she sets off for school and later returns to teach her sisters, and come to know the “characteristic kindness of the Brontes.” This unsentimental biography, written by friend and sometimes critic Elizabeth Gaskell, helped launch Charlotte Bronte’s fame and takes you on a journey to see the making of the author of Jane Eyre.
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
A collection of thirteen Yuletide horror tales features the work of such masters as Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Bloch, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ramsey Campbell Contains: The chimney / Ramsey Campbell Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson The night before Christmas / Robert Bloch The festival / H.P. Lovecraft The old nurse's story / Mrs. Gaskell Glámr / S. Baring-Gould Pollock and the porroh man / H.G. Wells The weird woman / Anonymous The hellhound project / Ron Goulart Wolverden tower / Grant Allen Planet of fakers / J.T. McIntosh Life sentence / James McConnell The star / Arthur C. Clarke
Short stories
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher]( / Edgar Allan Poe The lightning-rod man / Herman Melville The diamond lens / Fitzjames O'Brien The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte [Damned Thing]( / Ambrose Bierce The turn of the screw / Henry James The Hiltons' holiday / Sarah Orne Jewett The gift of the Magi / O. Henry The moving finger / Edith Wharton The open boat / Stephen Crane Lou, the prophet / Willa Cather The men of Forty Mile / Jack London Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald [A rose for Emily]( William Faulkner Big two-hearted river / Ernest Hemingway Flight / John Steinbeck
Cousin Phillis and other tales
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