num_pages: 368
description: Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.
language: English
title: Seven Gothic Tales
titlecomplete: Seven Gothic Tales
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Danish, Denmark, Gothic, Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3338
places: Denmark, Italy
publisher: Penguin Books