Genre :: Gothic (11 books)

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  #17

  Jane Eyre

  by Charlotte Brontë

  (35 Reviews)

  562 Points

  "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined..."

  

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  #26

  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

  (32 Reviews)

  417 Points

  

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  #43

  Rebecca

  by Daphne du Maurier

  (12 Reviews)

  333 Points

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

  

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  #99

  Light in August

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  188 Points

  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

  

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  #118

  The Woman in White

  by Wilkie Collins

  (6 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

  

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  #125

  Wide Sargasso Sea

  by Jean Rhys

  (6 Reviews)

  153 Points

  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."

  

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  #181

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #227

  Nightmare Abbey

  by Thomas Love Peacock

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county..."

  

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  #330

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  by Oscar Wilde

  (18 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more..."

  

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  #347

  Gormenghast

  by Mervyn Peake

  (2 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something..."

  

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