The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
7 best books like The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Jerrold E. Hogle): The Castle of Otranto, Danse Macabre, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death, Gothic, Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land, A Defence of Poetry, To the Spring Equinox and Beyond
| Author | Horace Walpole |
| ISBN | 0192834401 |
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...
Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition.
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space...
| Author | Fred Botting |
| ISBN | 0415092191 |
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide:
* Explains the transformations of the genre through history
* Outlines all...
Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0060556595 |
One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and almost...
| Author | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| ISBN | 1430482842 |
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
To the Spring Equinox and Beyond
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0804833281 |
Keitaro, giovane laureato, vive in una pensione. Trascorre le giornate portando lettere di presentazione per trovare lavoro e ascoltando le storie che gli racconta un altro ospite della pensione.
Sogna una vita di avventure e ascoltare quelle degli altri lo fa sentire più vicino al sogno.
L’ascolto...
