Classic·Gothic Fiction
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Before Dracula stalked London, a seductive stranger haunted an isolated Austrian castle with an intoxicating, predatory intimacy.
Shared themes:#isolation
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1911 · Complete work
Ethan Frome
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“Under the suffocating snows of New England, an unspoken passion threatens to shatter a desolate marriage.”
In the frozen, unforgiving landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan Frome ekes out a bitter existence on a failing farm. Trapped in a joyless, resentful marriage to his sickly wife, Zeena, Ethan finds his dreary world upended by the arrival of Mattie Silver, Zeena's vivacious young cousin. As winter tightens its grip, a quiet, desperate affinity blooms between Ethan and Mattie, offering a fleeting glimpse of warmth and hope. But duty, isolation, and unyielding circumstance soon conspire to force a devastating reckoning. Wharton crafts a chilling, masterfully restrained tale of longing and quiet tragedy.
18 Episodes · Classic
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All Episodes (18)
Episode 01
~13 min
Prologue · I
“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.”
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Episode 02
~10 min
Prologue · II
““There are things in that book that I didn’t know the first word about,” he said.”
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Episode 03
~9 min
Chapter I · I
“He stood there a moment, breathing quickly, and looking up and down the street, in which not another figure moved.”
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Episode 04
~5 min
Chapter I · II
“To him, who was never gay but in her presence, her gaiety seemed plain proof of indifference.”
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Episode 05
~8 min
Chapter II · I
““Ain’t you riding, Mattie?” a woman’s voice called back from the throng about the shed, and Ethan’s heart gave a jump.”
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Episode 06
~6 min
Chapter II · II
“Here and there a farmhouse stood far back among the fields, mute and cold as a grave-stone.”
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Episode 07
~10 min
Chapter III
“Even a few minutes earlier, when they had stood alone outside the house, he would not have dared to think of kissing her.”
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Episode 08
~12 min
Chapter IV · I
“He said “So long, Matt,” and she answered gaily “So long, Ethan”; and that was all.”
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Episode 09
~9 min
Chapter IV · II
“Then, with a sudden dart of irony, he wondered if, when their turn came, the same epitaph would be written over him and Zeena.”
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Episode 10
~10 min
Chapter V
“They spoke of every-day things, of the prospect of snow, of the next church sociable, of the loves and quarrels of Starkfield.”
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Episode 11
~8 min
Chapter VI
“But a wet snow, melting to sleet, had fallen in the night and turned the roads to glass.”
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Episode 12
~11 min
Chapter VII · I
“It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.”
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Episode 13
~9 min
Chapter VII · II
“She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled.”
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Episode 14
~9 min
Chapter VIII · I
“He was too young, too strong, too full of the sap of living, to submit so easily to the destruction of his hopes.”
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Episode 15
~7 min
Chapter VIII · II
““That trunk of yours is too heavy for the sleigh, and Dan’l Byrne’ll be round to take it over to the Flats,” she said.”
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Episode 16
~14 min
Chapter IX · I
““Jotham Powell’s down in the wood-lot, and Dan’l Byrne says he darsn’t leave that horse,” she returned.”
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Episode 18
~9 min
Chapter IX · III
““Oh, Matt, I thought we’d fetched it,” he moaned; and far off, up the hill, he heard the sorrel whinny, and thought: “I ought to be getting him his feed....””
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Public-domain work (1911). Text: Project Gutenberg #4517. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more