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The Little Stranger is a 2009 gothic novel written by Sarah Waters. It is a ghost story set in a dilapidated mansion in Warwickshire, England in the 1940s. Departing from her earlier themes of lesbian and gay fiction, Waters' fifth novel features a male narrator, a country doctor who makes friends with an old gentry family of declining fortunes ...
- Sarah Waters
- 2009
Sarah Waters wrote The Little Stranger in the tradition of the Gothic novel, which starts with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Gothic novels often feature Gothic architecture—hence the name—and characters who are haunted (often literally) by the past.
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The Little Stranger is a 2018 gothic drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Lucinda Coxon, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Sarah Waters. The film stars Domhnall Gleeson , Ruth Wilson , Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling .
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009. Plot Summary. The Little Stranger (2009), a gothic ghost story by novelist Jessica Waters, tells a tale of family, loss, legacy, and love with elements of the supernatural.
Apr 30, 2009 · 2,097 reviews 887 followers. January 27, 2024. In the 50s, old houses were "out of time" in England. Faraday, a country doctor, thus got to know the Ayers family, whom he learned as a child and who today find themselves isolated and very poor. Little by little, strange events follow one another in the house.
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Written by Calypso Carol. The novel begins with the journey of a country doctor to an old, eighteenth century mansion with its better days behind it. Dr Faraday has been called to the house to treat a young maid who works there.
