gothic
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Northanger Abbey – ebook
Jane Austen
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...Data dostępności:
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The Spectre Bride – ebook
William Harrison Ainsworth
This is a gothic classic. Very atmospheric. This amazing and attractive story, written in the highest times of our Faustian civilization, the majestic poetics of romanticism, and today, in these godforsaken times of fate and despair, shines with mysterious darkness.Data dostępności:
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The Star-Chamber – ebook
William Harrison Ainsworth
It is a good gothic thriller. Sir Giles Mompesson is a gloomy and all-powerful villain who sows destruction and suffering with the help of the Star Chamber court, it seems, just like that.Data dostępności:
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Rookwood – ebook
William Harrison Ainsworth
A typical gothic fantasy, Rookwood is a good read if you can stomach the songs, poetry, and flowery language. It features underground vaults, mummified corpses falling out of tombs, paranormal summonses, girls in great distress, a sinister gypsy old woman, adultery, death by lightning, and macabre prophecies.Data dostępności:
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Septimius Felton – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Septimus Felton talks about the thirst for eternal life. Gothic, and sometimes irresistible, is the last book of this author. He changes the roles of the characters and spreads the story, which becomes mysterious and ambiguous. Inside the novel is a story about a bleeding shadow, like a collection of what is in the book.Data dostępności:
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A Changed Heart – ebook
May Agnes Fleming
A good, old-fashioned story that would appeal to any fan of Jane Austen or Bronte. This takes place in St. John, NB. There are enough love interests, mysterious meetings, solemn balls and the necessary beautiful bouncer to pat all the hearts of young ladies. Indecision and murder provide the backdrop for this gothic novel.Data dostępności:
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Shirley – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
”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...Data dostępności:
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Villette – ebook
Charlotte Brontë
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...Data dostępności:
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The Fall of the House of Usher – audiobook
Edgar Allan Poe
In the haunting tale of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' Edgar Allan Poe masterfully weaves a narrative rife with melancholy, dread, and the supernatural. When the unnamed narrator arrives at the crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, he is plunged into a world of decay and madness. As the boundaries between reality and nightmare blur, the house itself becomes an echoing character,...Data dostępności:
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London Pride – ebook
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is a story about a knight who lost his wife during childbirth and his two daughters. The eldest daughter Hyacinth with a family monastery in Paris and Angela in a Flemish monastery with an aunt. The cloisters and surroundings were like night and day. The story of the reunion of the sisters after several years apart. The sisters have different moral values, but their sisterly cares prevail until...Data dostępności:
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