Arthur Conan Doyle: Gothic Tales

Cover: 9780198734307 | Gothic Tales | Arthur Conan Doyle | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2018

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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.

Über den Autor

Darryl Jones is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, where he has taught since 1994. He has held Visiting Professorships at Dartmouth College, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, and Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author or editor of over 10 books, including most recently the Oxford editions of the Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James and Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson, as well as many articles on nineteenth-century and popular literature.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

Chronology

The American's Tale

The Captain of the 'PoleStar'

The Winning Shot

J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement

John Barrington Cowles

Uncle Jeremy's Household

The Ring of Thoth

The Surgeon of Gaster Fell

A Pastoral Horror

'De Profundis'

Lot No. 249

The Los Amigos Fiasco

The Case of Lady Sannox

The Lord of Château Noir

The Third Generation

The Striped Chest

The Fiend of the Cooperage

The Beetle-Hunter

The Sealed Room

The Brazilian Cat

The New Catacomb

The Retirement of Signor Lambert

The Brown Hand

Playing with Fire

The Leather Funnel

The Pot of Caviare

The Silver Mirror

The Terror of Blue John Gap

Through the Veil

How it Happened

The Horror of the Heights

The Bully of Brocas Court

The Nightmare Room

The Lift

Explanatory Notes

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198734307
ISBN-10:	0198734301
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Conan Doyle, Arthur
Hersteller:	OXFORD UNIV PR Oxford World's Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	203 x 127 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Arthur Conan Doyle
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2018
Gewicht:	0,624 kg