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Fiction

  • 1993 first published
  • 354 pages
  • 10 editions

Fiction is a 1993 gothic fiction and demon fiction story collection by R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. It takes readers to New England and Salem Village in the 1600s. Characters include Prince Prospero, Goodman Brown and Faith Brown. Key subjects include Technique, collections, Tradition and Change.

10 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions.

It runs to roughly 354 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Technique
  • English Short stories
  • American Short stories
  • Short stories, english
  • Short stories, american
  • Collections
  • Tradition
  • Change
  • Death
  • Allegory
  • Nonlinear narrative
  • Gentleman's agreements
  • Recluses
  • Mentally ill women
  • Abbeys
  • American horror tales

Quick answers

Who wrote Fiction?

Fiction was written by R.S. Gwynn, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1993.

What genre is Fiction?

It is usually shelved as Gothic Fiction, Demons & Devils and Horror.

How long is Fiction?

The median edition has 354 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Fiction?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories and The Evil Image.

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