| Gothic Tales Contributor(s): Conan Doyle, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198734301 ISBN-13: 9780198734307 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Oxford World's Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.80 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of gothic tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best gothic tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic. |