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American Gothic Tales
''American Gothic Tales'' is an anthology of " gothic" American short fiction. Edited and with an Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, it was published by Plume in 1996. It features contributions by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Anne Rice and others, and includes over 40 stories. Contents *Introduction *Charles Brockden Brown: '' Wieland; or, the Transformation'' *Washington Irving: " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" *Nathaniel Hawthorne: " The Man of Adamant" and " Young Goodman Brown" *Herman Melville: " The Tartarus of Maids" *Edgar Allan Poe: " The Black Cat" *Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" *Henry James: " The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" *Ambrose Bierce: " The Damned Thing" *Edith Wharton: " Afterward" * Gertrude Atherton: " The Striding Place" * Sherwood Anderson: " Death in the Woods" *H. P. Lovecraft: " The Outsider" *William Faulkner: " A Rose for Emily" *August Derleth: " The Lonesome Place" * E. B. White: "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, advocate for social reform, and eugenics, eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her works were primarily focused on gender, specifically gendered labor division in society, and the problem of male domination. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. Early life Gilman was born on July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Mary Fitch Westcott and Frederic Beecher Perkins. She had only one brother, Thomas Adie, who was fourteen months older, because a physician advised Mary Perkins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for William Faulkner bibliography, his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County, Mississippi, Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern United States literature, Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel ''Soldiers' Pay'' (1925). He went back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outsider (short Story)
The Outsider may refer to: Film * ''The Outsider'' (1917 film), an American film directed by William C. Dowlan * ''The Outsider'' (1926 film), an American film directed by Rowland V. Lee * ''The Outsider'' (1931 film), a film starring Joan Barry * ''The Outsider'' (1939 film), a film starring George Sanders * ''The Outsider'' (1948 film) or ''The Guinea Pig'', a British film starring Richard Attenborough * ''The Outsider'' (1961 film), directed by Delbert Mann and starring Tony Curtis * ''The Outsider'', a TV film and series pilot starring Darren McGavin; became a series in the 1968–69 season * ''The Outsider'' (1979 film), a film starring Craig Wasson * ''The Outsider'' (''Le marginal'') (1983), a film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo * ''The Outsider'' (1998 film) or ''Gangster World'', a science fiction TV movie * ''The Outsider'' (2002 film), a western starring Tim Daly and Naomi Watts * ''The Outsider'' (2005 film), a 2005 documentary directed by Nicholas Jarecki, fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death In The Woods
''Death in the Woods'' is a 1933 short story collection by Sherwood Anderson. It was the last of Anderson's books to be published by Boni & Liveright before the firm's financial collapse. Most of the stories in the collection were previously published either in magazines ("Why They Got Married" appeared in the March 1929 issue of '' Vanity Fair'', for example, and "A Meeting South" was first published in ''The Dial'' of April 1925) and books (versions of "Death in the Woods" and "A Meeting South" were included in '' Tar: A Midwest Childhood'' and ''Sherwood Anderson's Notebook'' (both 1926), respectively). According to John Earl Bassett, most of the stories in ''Death in the Woods'' were written between 1926 and 1930 with four preceding that time and one following.Bassett (2005), 69 The Stories The collection is made up of 16 stories: * Death in the Woods * The Return * There She Is—She is Taking Her Bath * The Lost Novel * The Fight * Like a Queen * That Sophistication * In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio. In 1912, Anderson had a nervous breakdown that led him to abandon his business and family to become a writer. At the time, he moved to Chicago and was eventually married three additional times. His most enduring work is the short-story sequence '' Winesburg, Ohio,'' which launched his career. Throughout the 1920s, Anderson published several short story collections, novels, memoirs, books of essays, and a book of poetry. Though his books sold reasonably well, '' Dark Laughter'' (1925), a novel inspired by Anderson's time in New Orleans during the 1920s, was his only bestseller. Early life Sherwood Berton Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, at 142 S. Lafayette Street in Camden, Ohio, a farming town with a population of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Striding Place
"The Striding Place" is a short story by American writer Gertrude Atherton. The story was first published in '' The Speaker'' on June 20th, 1896 under the title "The Twins." After improving the story, Atherton renamed and republished it in ''The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories'' in 1905. The story is set on a night sometime in August, in West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the woods and moors near the (possibly fictional) March Abbey. The exact time period is unclear, but it is likely set at some point close to when the story was written in the late nineteenth century. The main character is a man named Weigall who is searching for his close friend, Wyatt Gifford, who’d gone missing two nights prior during an otherwise mundane hunting trip. Weigall knows Gifford as an “incorrigible practical joker,” and is almost convinced that the man’s disappearance is part of his latest prank. Nonetheless, Weigall is concerned for Gifford, and ends up searching the forest for him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer. Paterson, Isabel, "Gertrude Atherton: A Personality" The Bookman'', New York, February 1924, (pgs. 632-636) Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestselling novel ''Black Oxen'' (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. Early life and education Gertrude Franklin Horn was born on October 30, 1857, in San Francisco, California, to Thomas Ludovich Horn and his wife, the former Gertrude Franklin. Her father had become a prominent citizen in San Francisco as a tobacco merchant, although he originally hailed from Stonington, Connecticut. Her mother was from New Orleans. Her parents separated in 1860 when she was two years old, and she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Stephen Franklin, a devout Presbyteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afterward (short Story)
"Afterward" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the 1910 edition of ''The Century Magazine''. and later reprinted in her books '' The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton'' and ''Tales of Men and Ghosts'' (1910). It is an ironic ghost story about greed and retribution. The ghost comes for one of the main characters long after a business transgression where the character wronged another. Summary Part I Mary, the narrator, recalls a conversation that she and her husband, Ned Boyne, had with their cousin Alida Stair six months earlier. The conversation centered on their search for a house in a southern or southwestern county in England. Alida suggested Lyng in Dorsetshire, after they had turned down several more suitable suggestions. Lyng is old, isolated, and in disrepair and they are attracted to it because of the “charm of having been for centuries a deep dim reservoir of life.” They only wanted the house if it was haunted. Legend ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Wharton
Edith Newbold Wharton (; ; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel ''The Age of Innocence''. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are ''The House of Mirth'', the novella ''Ethan Frome'', and several notable ghost stories. Biography Early life Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City. To her friends and family, she was known as "Pussy Jones". She had two elder brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones, Mary Cadwalader Rawle; their daughter was landscape architect Beatri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Damned Thing
"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in '' Town Topics'' on December 7, 1893. Summary "The Damned Thing" is written in four parts, each with a comical subtitle. The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death. William Harker, a witness to the death, enters and is sworn in by the coroner to relate the circumstances. William reads a prepared statement about a hunting and fishing outing undertaken with Morgan. He and Morgan encountered a series of disturbances that Morgan referred to as "that damned thing". During the last encounter, Morgan fired his gun in fear, then fell to the ground and cried out in mortal agony. Harker saw his companion moving violently and erratically, while shouting and making disturbing cries. He thought Morgan was having convulsions because he didn't appear to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – ) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book '' The Devil's Dictionary'' was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story " An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book '' Tales of Soldiers and Civilians'' (also published as ''In the Midst of Life'') was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
