gothic

Hipnotyzująca wariacja na temat klasycznej powieści gotyckiej, w której suspens splata się z meksykańskim folklorem i czarem lat pięćdziesiątych XX wieku. Wciągająca powieść grozy wyróżniona GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD 2020. „Swoim porywającym, wręcz hipnotycznym stylem Moreno-Garcia dowodzi, że jest jednym z najbardziej fascynujących talentów w tym gatunku literackim” – Nerdist „Zupełnie...

The story’s heroine is Catherine Morland, an innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with...

”Shirley”, the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, was released in 1849 amongst high anticipations by readers and critics after super success of „Jane Eyre”. Probably, it is the most „suspenseful” novel by Charlotte Bronte. The novel delicately combines classic Gothic motives – motives, relatively speaking, are classically the „detective”. However, under the brilliant pen of Bronte, enthralling...

Villette is Charlotte Bronte’s last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucy’s psychology, particularly Bronte’s use of Gothic...