The Greatest Gothic Classics

Author : Charles Dickens,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Anna Katharine Green,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,William Godwin,Henry James,Victor Hugo,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Jane Austen,John Meade Falkner,George Eliot,Robert Hugh Benson,Horace Walpole,Frederick Marryat,Thomas Love Peacock,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gaston Leroux,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Charles Brockden Brown,James Hogg,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Richard Marsh,Charles Robert Maturin,John William Polidori,H. G. Wells,W. W. Jacobs,H. P. Lovecraft,William Thomas Beckford,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Ann Radcliffe,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Fitz-James O'Brien,Eliza Parsons
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 9759 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547780335

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The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time by Charles Dickens,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Anna Katharine Green,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,William Godwin,Henry James,Victor Hugo,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Jane Austen,John Meade Falkner,George Eliot,Robert Hugh Benson,Horace Walpole,Frederick Marryat,Thomas Love Peacock,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gaston Leroux,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Charles Brockden Brown,James Hogg,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Richard Marsh,Charles Robert Maturin,John William Polidori,H. G. Wells,W. W. Jacobs,H. P. Lovecraft,William Thomas Beckford,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Ann Radcliffe,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Fitz-James O'Brien,Eliza Parsons Pdf

Good Press present to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest gothic & macabre classics of all time: Content: Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Call of Cthulhu

Author : Charles Dickens,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Anna Katharine Green,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,William Godwin,Henry James,Victor Hugo,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Jane Austen,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Robert Hugh Benson,Horace Walpole,Frederick Marryat,Thomas Love Peacock,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gaston Leroux,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Charles Brockden Brown,James Hogg,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Richard Marsh,Charles Robert Maturin,John William Polidori,H. G. Wells,W. W. Jacobs,William Thomas Beckford,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Ann Radcliffe,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Eliza Parsons
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 9590 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : EAN:8596547684206

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The Greatest Gothic Classics by Charles Dickens,Oscar Wilde,Robert Louis Stevenson,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Anna Katharine Green,George MacDonald,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,William Godwin,Henry James,Victor Hugo,Théophile Gautier,Arthur Conan Doyle,Jane Austen,John Meade Falkner,Guy de Maupassant,George Eliot,Robert Hugh Benson,Horace Walpole,Frederick Marryat,Thomas Love Peacock,Washington Irving,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Gaston Leroux,Grant Allen,Arthur Machen,Wilkie Collins,Thomas Peckett Prest,James Malcolm Rymer,Charles Brockden Brown,James Hogg,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Richard Marsh,Charles Robert Maturin,John William Polidori,H. G. Wells,W. W. Jacobs,William Thomas Beckford,Nikolai Gogol,Mary Shelley,Ann Radcliffe,Matthew Gregory Lewis,Eliza Parsons Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower

Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191642395

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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom Pdf

The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394848280

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Dracula by Bram Stoker Pdf

String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.

Author : Ron Rash
Publisher : Ecco Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062173790

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Serena by Ron Rash Pdf

Années 1930, Smoky Mountains. George Pemberton, riche exploitant forestier, et sa femme Serena forment un couple de prédateurs mégalos, déterminés à couper tous les arbres à portée de main pour accroître leur fortune. Mais le projet d'aménagement d'un parc national, pour lequel l'État convoite leurs terres, menace leurs ambitions. Pemberton s'emploie à soudoyer banquiers et politiciens. Sans états d'âme, Serena a d'autres arguments: le fusil, le couteau, le poison, et un homme de main dévoué... Après Un pied au paradis, Ron Rash nous propose un drame élisabéthain sur fond de Dépression et de capitalisme sans foi ni foi. La nature, hostile et menacée, s'y mesure âprement aux pires recoins de l'âme humaine. Ron Rash signe ici une version sauvage de la tragédie grecque, au coeur des montagnes boisées de la Caroline du Nord. Dominique Artus, Le Point.

Author : Horace Walpole,Mary Shelley,William Beckford
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141905624

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Three Gothic Novels by Horace Walpole,Mary Shelley,William Beckford Pdf

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

Author : Jane Healey
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780358105251

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The Animals At Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey Pdf

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection. In August 1939, thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She is unprepared for the scale of protecting her charges from party guests, wild animals, the elements, the tyrannical Major Lockwood, and Luftwaffe bombs. Most of all, she is unprepared for the beautiful and haunted Lucy Lockwood. For Lucy, who has spent much of her life cloistered at Lockwood, suffering from bad nerves, the arrival of the museum brings with it new freedoms. But it also resurfaces memories of her late mother and nightmares in which Lucy roams Lockwood, hunting for something she has lost. When the animals appear to move of their own accord and exhibits go missing, Hetty and Lucy begin to wonder what exactly it is that they might need protection from. And as the disasters mount, it is not only Hetty’s future employment that is in danger but her own sanity. There’s something, or someone, in the house. Someone stalking her through its darkened corridors . . .

Author : Chris Baldick
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0199561532

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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick Pdf

Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199538874

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Late Victorian Gothic Tales by Roger Luckhurst Pdf

'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN : OCLC:1275384457

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The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time by Horace Walpole Pdf

E-artnow present to you this meticulously edited collection of the greatest gothic & macabre classics of all time: Content: Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Vampyre The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Melmoth the Wanderer The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Phantom Ship St, John's Eve Viy The Mysterious Portrait Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark The Lifted Veil The Woman in White Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carmilla Uncle Silas The Hound of the Baskervilles The Picture of Dorian Gray The Horla The Forsaken Inn The Great God Pan Lilith The Lost Stradivarius The Island of Doctor Moreau The Beetle The Turn of the Screw Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars (Original 1903 Edition) The Monkey's Paw The Necromancers The Phantom of the Opera Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot The House on the Borderland The Boats of the Glen Carrig Wolverden Tower The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Call of Cthulhu

Author : Oscar Wilde,Robert Stevenson,Mary Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798529180648

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Gothic Horror Classics: Frankenstein, the Picture of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Oscar Wilde,Robert Stevenson,Mary Shelley Pdf

Value, quality, and three gothic-horror stories all in one book! Get three classics at an affordable price. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde And Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author : Clara Reeve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015005634889

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The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve Pdf

Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465612229

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Melmoth the Wanderer (Complete) by Charles Robert Maturin Pdf

The beauty of the country through which he travelled (it was the county Wicklow) could not prevent his mind from dwelling on many painful thoughts, some borrowed from the past, and more from the future. His uncle’s caprice and moroseness,—the strange reports concerning the cause of the secluded life he had led for many years,—his own dependent state,—fell like blows fast and heavy on his mind. He roused himself to repel them,—sat up in the mail, in which he was a solitary passenger,—looked out on the prospect,—consulted his watch;—then he thought they receded for a moment,—but there was nothing to fill their place, and he was forced to invite them back for company. When the mind is thus active in calling over invaders, no wonder the conquest is soon completed. As the carriage drew near the Lodge, (the name of old Melmoth’s seat), John’s heart grew heavier every moment. The recollection of this awful uncle from infancy,—when he was never permitted to approach him without innumerable lectures,—not to be troublesome,—not to go too near his uncle,—not to ask him any questions,—on no account to disturb the inviolable arrangement of his snuff-box, hand-bell, and spectacles, nor to suffer the glittering of the gold-headed cane to tempt him to the mortal sin of handling it,—and, finally, to pilot himself aright through his perilous course in and out of the apartment without striking against the piles of books, globes, old newspapers, wig-blocks, tobacco-pipes, and snuff-cannisters, not to mention certain hidden rocks of rat-traps and mouldy books beneath the chairs,—together with the final reverential bow at the door, which was to be closed with cautious gentleness, and the stairs to be descended as if he were “shod with felt.”—This recollection was carried on to his school-boy years, when at Christmas and Easter, the ragged poney, the jest of the school, was dispatched to bring the reluctant visitor to the Lodge,—where his pastime was to sit vis-a-vis to his uncle, without speaking or moving, till the pair resembled Don Raymond and the ghost of Beatrice in the Monk,—then watching him as he picked the bones of lean mutton out of his mess of weak broth, the latter of which he handed to his nephew with a needless caution not to “take more than he liked,”—then hurried to bed by day-light, even in winter, to save the expence of an inch of candle, where he lay awake and restless from hunger, till his uncle’s retiring at eight o’clock gave signal to the governante of the meagre household to steal up to him with some fragments of her own scanty meal, administering between every mouthful a whispered caution not to tell his uncle. Then his college life, passed in an attic in the second square, uncheered by an invitation to the country; the gloomy summer wasted in walking up and down the deserted streets, as his uncle would not defray the expences of his journey;—the only intimation of his existence, received in quarterly epistles, containing, with the scanty but punctual remittance, complaints of the expences of his education, cautions against extravagance, and lamentations for the failure of tenants and the fall of the value of lands. All these recollections came over him, and along with them the remembrance of that last scene, where his dependence on his uncle was impressed on him by the dying lips of his father.

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795352072

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Malcolm by George MacDonald Pdf

A masterpiece of mystery and spiritual power from one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers, the Scottish author who inspired C. S. Lewis. This towering 1875 novel, set in the Scottish fishing village of Cullen, is considered by many as George MacDonald’s fictional masterwork. The intricate tale is more true to place than any of MacDonald’s books. As Malcolm is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding majestic Lossie House, with the marquis of Lossie and his tempestuous daughter Florimel at the center of them, we meet some of MacDonald’s most memorable characters. Through them Malcolm must unravel many mysteries that hang over the town and its people—and himself. The Scottish dialect is more impenetrable than in many of MacDonald’s other Scottish novels, and has been translated into readable English in this newly updated edition by MacDonald’s biographer Michael Phillips. Calling it a “masterpiece of plot, drama, mystery, characterization, and spiritual depth,” it was Malcolm which in the 1970s set Phillips on his life’s-work to acquaint the world with MacDonald’s forgotten legacy through new editions of MacDonald’s work. Phillips says, “Malcolm is always an ideal choice for new readers to begin a deeper acquaintance with MacDonald,” especially as it is set in the locale from which The Cullen Collection of new editions derives its name. Phillips’s lengthy informative introduction sets Malcolm’s story colorfully into the context of MacDonald’s two 1870s visits to Cullen. Phillips also provides readers new to the works of MacDonald with a historical overview of the Scotsman’s writing and significance.

Author : Hans Jantzen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984-03-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691003726

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High Gothic by Hans Jantzen Pdf

This engaging study introduces the reader to one of the greatest achievements of Western art: the climactic phase of Gothic architecture in the first half of the thirteenth century. Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.