Gothic Fiction collection - 26 Works of horror and romance (The Castle of Otranto, Frankenstein, Dracula, Carmilla, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw +++)

by Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Jane Austen

Overview

26 Works of Gothic Fiction:
Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of essentially Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel.

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis
The Bravo of Venice: A Romance by Heinrich Zschokke
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Vampyre by John William Polidori
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Bourgonef by Anonymous
The Closed Cabinet by Anonymous

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016766690
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	06/13/2013
Series:	Unforgotten Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	234,971
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907). During his career, he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63