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American gothic tales
Title:
American gothic tales
Author:
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Publication Information:
New York : Plume, [1996]

©1996
Physical Description:
viii, 544 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
"A William Abrahams book."
Language:
English
Contents:
From Wieland, or The transformation -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The man of adamant -- Young Goodman Brown -- The tartarus of maids -- The black cat -- The yellow wallpaper -- The romance of certain old clothes -- The damned thing -- Afterward -- The striding place -- Death in the woods -- The outsider -- A rose for Emily -- The lonesome place -- The door -- The lovely house -- Allal -- The reencounter -- In the icebound hothouse -- The enormous radio -- the veldt -- The Dachau shoe -- The approved -- Postcards from the Maginot Line -- Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams -- In bed one night -- Schrödinger's cat -- The waterworks -- Shattered like a glass goblin -- Human moments in World War III -- The anatomy of desire -- Little things -- The temple -- Freniere -- A short guide to the city -- In the penny arcade -- The reach -- Exchange value -- Snow -- The last feast of Harlequin -- Time and again -- Replacements -- Spirit seizures -- Cat in glass -- The girl who loved animals -- Ursus traid, later -- The nuclear family: his talk, her teeth -- Subsoil.
ISBN:
9780452274891
Format :
Book