In colonial New England, a woman is collecting berries for her son and her man. She ventures into the woods, but winds up getting lost. Or did she run away, abandoning her family? Or was she taken into the woods, now trapped and unable to leave? Try as she might to leave, she always finds herself back in the woods. Back at the house in the dark of the . . .
Two children, Flora and Miles, reside at Bly Manor, and are in need of a new governess after the last one passed away. The new governess, our unnamed narrator, soon becomes unnerved at Bly, as she is convinced the two young children are being haunted. She begins to see the ghosts of two former employees: the former governess, and a . . .
For over 20 years, Hill House has been uninhabited---by humans, that is. The house is widely known as being uninviting, and Dr. Montague, being the scholar that he is, is determined to find evidence of a haunting. Along with Luke, the future heir of Hill House, Dr. Montague invites two women to stay in the house and . . .
The Blackwoods have lived in the house upon the hill for generations. There used to be more Blackwoods, but now there's only three: Mary Katherine (who goes by Merricat), her sister Constance, and their Uncle Julian. The other Blackwoods were killed years ago by poison, a crime Constance was accused of and then acquitted. But the people in the . . .
Is it just me, or do you feel like a 40-year-old woman sitting alone in an apartment petting her cat and drinking coffee when you read Jane Austen? It's probably just me. I mean, to be fair, I'm a 20-year-old woman sitting alone in a dorm room petting her cat and drinking coffee, so I'm…
Hey guys! It's my first book review of 2017 and I made sure to make it a good one. Oscar Wilde has been one of my favorite writers for a while now and I've finally gotten around to reading his infamous The Picture of Dorian Gray. I picked this up two years ago in Canada and it's…
Title: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Publisher: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones Publication Date: 1818 Rating: 3.5 stars Opening Line: St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 --TO Mrs. Saville, EnglandYou will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. Though…
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