Eventually we find ourselves with four characters in the loft of a farmhouse where they must await rescue with the water ever rising. A once in a hundred years storm occurs which requires the evacuation of the spa and surrounding farmsteads. It is set in the 1830s at a resort island off the northern coast of Germany, Norderney. The first story, "The Deluge at Norderney," proceeds largely by way of monologues. 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, 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. 9780141187198 Seven Gothic Tales 32.2000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/classics /shop/books Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven 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, the Count whose wife is so jealous tha.
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