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Classic Gothics online? - Des Esseintes - 12-04-2009 I was wondering if anyone else here has tried to find any classic gothic novels online for free? There are a few at Project Gutenberg , others at the Internet Archive's text section and some at Google Books. The Internet Archive has an impressive ammount of old books and most of the scans are excellent if you get the .pdf versions. Google Books isn't nearly as good and I had to struggle for a while to find stuff and they have sometimes ommited a volume of an multi-volume work. I was thinking that we might pool our results into a single thread to save each other time if anyone else is interested. We could each post direct links to the titles we found. Anyone interested? RE: Classic Gothics online? - Prism - 12-12-2009 I'm sorry no one's responded to this. When I saw the topic title, I thought of Archive.org, because I make good and frequent use of it. I crave the occasional Victorian novel, lately M.E. Braddon, and Mrs. Henry Wood. Googlebooks is pretty much worthless! I'm disgusted by the poor quality; most of what I've seen is unreadable. RE: Classic Gothics online? - Des Esseintes - 12-13-2009 Yeah, I figured there wouldn't be much response here. (Frankly, I don't know how this place stays open with no traffic and no ads.) Of course, I could have gotten the ball rolling by posting the links I already had to texts at Project Gutenberg but I was too lazy at the time. I recently checked out the book The First Gothics by Fred Frank. It looks like it has 500 old gothics listed and reviewed. I'm sure it will drive me to find at least a few of them. If I find them online I'll put the links here. RE: Classic Gothics online? - paigenumber - 12-19-2009 I'd love to get gothics online for free, but I don't like to read off the computer, and I can't print it out. I would be interested in knowing the actual titles of gothic books. RE: Classic Gothics online? - Des Esseintes - 12-24-2009 (12-19-2009, 11:32 AM)paigenumber Wrote: I would be interested in knowing the actual titles of gothic books. As part of something I'm working on I made a list of some titles, but some of them are very rare and I'm not sure how many are online. I thought I'd at least share the list and maybe share links to online editions if I find them. I think all the below titles are "first wave" gothics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sorry I didn't include author or year but I didn't need them for my project. Google will probably turn up that info. Adeline St. Julian: or, The Midnight Hour The Affecting History of Louisa, The Wandering Maniac Alexena: or, The Castle of Santa Marco Almahide: or, The Captive Queen Ariel: or, the Invisible Monitor Correlia: or, The Mysterious Tomb Durston Castle: or, the Ghost of Eleonora, a Gothic story Ellen: Countess of Castle Howel Ellen: Heiress of the Castle Eliza: or, The Unhappy Nun Emily Moreland: or, The Maid of the Valley Emily: or, The Fatal Promise Emmeline; or The Happy Discovery Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle Ethelinde: or, The Recluse of the Lake Ethelwina: or, The House of Fritz-Auburne Eva of Cambria: or, The Fugitive Daughter Fanny; or, The Happy Repentance Fatherless Fanny The History of Emily Montague The History of Lady Julia Mandeville Jaqueline of Olzeburg; or Final Retribution Letitia: or, The Castle Without A Spectre Lucretia: or, The Robbers of the Hyrcanean Forest Madelina: A Tale Founded On Facts Madeline: or, The Castle of Montgomery Margiana: or, Widdrington Tower Mary-Jane Phedora: or, The Forest of Minski Rosalie: or, The Castle of Montalabretti Rosa; or, The Child of the Abbey Rosella: or, Modern Occurrences The Sorrows Of Edith The Story Of Morella De Alto Vesuvia: or Anglesea Manor Those are what I call the "girl title" gothics because they all have a girl's name in them. Below are some titles that imply females in the second or third person. The Abbess The Abbess of Valtiera The Castle of Montabino: or, The Orphan Sisters The Heroine The Idiot Heiress The Mysterious Sisters The Nuns of Misericordia Owen Castle: or, Which Is The Heroine? The School For Widows She Would Be A Heroine The Sisters of St. Gothard The Witch of Ravensworth It's interesting to see that even the earliest gothics were considered "chic lit" as early as the 1700s. It sort of negates the claim that everything is chic lit today because of some decline in education, taste or the increase of women's spare time. Those same criticisms were used on gothics 200 years ago and they weren't any more accurate back then than they are today. RE: Classic Gothics online? - Einsamer Krieger - 12-16-2011 Des Esseintes, thanks a lot for this thread, it had been a considerable help to me. RE: Classic Gothics online? - RareMale - 12-17-2011 I could only find links to some of the titles on Des Esseintes's list, but here they are: The Affecting History of Louisa, The Wandering Maniac - http://www.archive.org/details/affectinghistory00glasrich Alexena: or, The Castle of Santa Marco - http://www.archive.org/details/alexenaorcastleo01lond Ellen: Countess of Castle Howel - http://books.google.com/books/about/Ellen_Countess_of_Castle_Howel.html?id=-6k0AAAAMAAJ Emily Moreland: or, The Maid of the Valley - http://www.archive.org/details/emilymorelandorm00jone Emmeline; or The Happy Discovery - http://books.google.com/books/about/Emmeline_or_The_happy_discovery.html?id=AiAGAAAAQAAJ Emmeline: The Orphan of the Castle - http://www.archive.org/details/emmelineorphanc02smitgoog Ethelinde: or, The Recluse of the Lake - http://www.archive.org/details/ethelindeorrecl02smitgoog Fatherless Fanny - http://www.archive.org/details/fatherlessfannyo00reevuoft The History of Emily Montague - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/brooke/emily/emily.html The History of Lady Julia Mandeville - http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BroLady.html Madelina: A Tale Founded On Facts - http://www.archive.org/details/madeleineatalea01kavagoog Margiana: or, Widdrington Tower - http://books.google.com/books/about/Margiana_or_Widdrington_tower_by_mrs_S_S.html?id=_B0GAAAAQAAJ Rosalie: or, The Castle of Montalabretti - http://www.archive.org/details/rosalieorcastleo02rhod Rosella: or, Modern Occurrences - http://www.archive.org/details/rosellaormoderno02char Owen Castle: or, Which Is The Heroine? - http://www.archive.org/details/owencastleorwhic04sull The School For Widows - http://books.google.com/books/about/The_school_for_widows.html?id=7xw5AAAAMAAJ The Sisters of St. Gothard - http://books.google.com/books/about/The_sisters_of_St_Gothard.html?id=xKgBAAAAQAAJ RE: Classic Gothics online? - bigred904 - 06-06-2013 (12-04-2009, 11:49 AM)Des Esseintes Wrote: I was wondering if anyone else here has tried to find any classic gothic novels online for free? There are a few at Project Gutenberg , others at the Internet Archive's text section and some at Google Books. The Internet Archive has an impressive ammount of old books and most of the scans are excellent if you get the .pdf versions. Google Books isn't nearly as good and I had to struggle for a while to find stuff and they have sometimes ommited a volume of an multi-volume work. I AM LOOKING FOR PLACES TO BUY THEM ALSO, IF YOU FIND ANY SITES PLEASE LET ME KNOW |