Young goodman brown and other tales, Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Автор: Polidori, John
Название: Vampyre and other tales of the macabre
ISBN: 019955241X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552412
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: `The Vampyre` was first published in 1819 in the London New Monthly Magazine. The present volume - a companion to Tales of Terror from Blackwood`s Magazine in World`s Classics - selects thirteen other tales of the macabre first published in the leading London and Dublin magazines between 1819 and 1838. It includes Edward Bulwer`s chilling account of the doppelganger, Letitia Landon`s elegant reworking of the Gothic romance, William Carleton`sterrifying description of an actual lynching, and James Hogg`s ghoulish exploitation of the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.

Автор: Conrad
Название: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales
ISBN: 0199536015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536016
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Описание: `Heart of Darkness` is Conrad`s finest tale and tells of Marlow`s journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz. This volume also includes `An Outpost of Progress`, `Karain`, and `Youth` in a revised edition using the English first edition texts and with new chronology and bibliography.

Автор: Twain Mark
Название: Pudd`nhead Wilson and Other Tales
ISBN: 0199554714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199554713
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Описание: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences.

This volume also includes two other late works 'Those Extraordinary Twins' and 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.

Автор: Stevenson
Название: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
ISBN: 0199536228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199536221
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Описание: Stevenson`s short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context.

Автор: Hoffmann, E.t.a.
Название: The Golden pot and other tales
ISBN: 0199552479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552474
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Описание: Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, puts in the foreground those tales in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict. The humour of these tales is a result of the incongruity of supernatural beings at large in an ostentatiously everyday world. They include The Golden Pot, recognized as Hoffmann`s masterpiece by himself and posterity;its spine-chilling companion tale, The Sandman, which Offenbach drew on for his opera Tales of Hoffmann, and which Freud examines in his essay `The Uncanny`; two longer and more elaborate fantasies, set respectively in Germany and Italy; and the late story, My Cousin`s Corner Window, which shows the powers ofthe imagination being applied to everyday urban life, and marks a transition in European literature generally from Romanticism to Realism. Ritchie Robertson`s detailed introduction places the stories in their intellectual and historical context and explores their compelling narrative complexities.

Автор: Schwitters Kurt
Название: Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
ISBN: 0691160996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160993
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. This book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters` death in 1948.