Books

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Sylvia\'s Lovers  Complete Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and… OL1103152W
Tales of Mystery and Horror Tales of Mystery and Horror Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell > Admirers of Mrs. Gaskell's immensely popular novel *Cranford* may not realize that the celebrated Victorian novelist also wrote short stories of a high quality. The seven stories in the present vol… OL1103178W
Wives and daughters Wives and daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. OL1103200W
The Haunted House The Haunted House Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Charles Dickens The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, … OL14869112W
Cousin Phillis and other stories Cousin Phillis and other stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth Gaskell has long been one of the most popular of Victorian novelists, yet in her lifetime her shorter fictions were equally well loved, and they are among the most accomplished examples of … OL15168138W
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Samuel Sidney,James White,Harriet Martineau,Ollier, Edmund,Charles Dickens,Edmund Saul Dixon,William Moy Thomas,Eliza Griffiths The poor relation's story / by Charles Dickens The child's story / by Charles Dickens Somebody's story / by William Moy Thomas The old nurse's story / by Elizabeth Gaskell The host's story / … OL15508859W
Curses Curses Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. L. Gold,Robert W. Chambers,Robert Bloch,Martin H. Greenberg,Wilkie Collins,Avram Davidson,George Moore,Arthur C. Clarke,Charles G. Waugh,Theodore Cogswell,Sarah Orne Jewett,Robertson, Morgan,Isaac Asimov,Christopher Fahy,Seumas MacManus,Manly Wade Wellman,Talmage Powell,F. Antsy,Mario Martin Jr. Contents: Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bl… OL16420811W
Cousin Phillis and other stories Cousin Phillis and other stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell A selection that includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s & 'Cousin Phillis'. OL21181295W
The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 2 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Published two years after the novelist's death, this two-volume work is the first and the best-known of the many biographies of the Brontë family. Written by the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865… OL24442035W
My Lady Ludlow My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and … OL29228714W
The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century The New Windmill Book of Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Thomas Hardy,Ambrose Bierce,Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Edgar Allan Poe,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Bram Stoker,Robert Etty,Montague Rhodes James The Ostler / Wilkie Collins -- The old nurse's stories / Elizabeth Gaskell -- [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- [Pit and the… OL3085486W
Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Hugh (ed.) Walker,Hugh (introduction) Walker,Hugh Walker,Richard Garnett,Charles Lamb,Washington Irving,Charles Dickens,Robert Louis Stevenson,John Brown,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Benjamin Disraeli,Edgar Allan Poe,William Morris,Anthony Trollope,W.H. White,Hubert Crackenthorpe,Mary Elizabeth Coleridge,George Gissing,Walker, Hugh,Sir Walter Scott,George Meredith,F.B. Miggles Harte Scott, Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale. Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt. Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold destiny. [Dr.… OL345046W
Short Stories Short Stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,Mike Royston,Kate Chopin,Olive Schreiner Kate Chopin's stories: [Désirée's Baby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078777W) The Kiss Elizabeth Gaskell's stories: The Half-Brothers The Manchester Marriage Olive Schreiner's st… OL8113206W
Classic Ghost Stories Classic Ghost Stories Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell,H. G. Wells,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,W. W. Jacobs,Joseph Conrad,Ambrose Bierce,Francis Marion Crawford,Rudyard Kipling,Robert Louis Stevenson,Benjamin Disraeli,Edgar Allan Poe,Bill Bowers,Amelia B. Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Mary E. Wilkins,E. F. Benson,Rebecca Harding Davis,Montague Rhodes James,Louisa Baldwin,W.F. Harvey Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James -- A true story / Benjamin Disraeli -- The pha… OL8508037W