02023cam a2200349 i 4500 1846724022 TxAuBib 20230919120000.0 170501s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017015395 9780143132400 softcover 0143132407 softcover DLC eng DLC rda DLC TLC rda TxAuBib rda Cullinan, Thomas, author. The beguiled : a novel / Thomas Cullinan. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017. 372 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Movie tie-in. "The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the women are revealed for what they really are, a sense of ominous foreboding closes in on the soldier, and the question becomes: Just who is the beguiled?"-- Provided by publisher. 20230919. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Soldiers Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Romance / Gothic. FICTION / Media Tie-In. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction. Historical fiction. Gothic fiction.