The Mysteries of UdolphoThis was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho by her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Here she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors which threaten to overwhelm her. |
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... with moonlight streaming through a distant Gothic window, Emily does – but not without a fleeting perception of 'a shadow gliding between the pillars', which she immediately rationalizes as her 'fancy' deceiving her.
... with moonlight streaming through a distant Gothic window, Emily does – but not without a fleeting perception of 'a shadow gliding between the pillars', which she immediately rationalizes as her 'fancy' deceiving her.
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Even Montoni, 'such as she had seen him in his days of triumph, bold, spirited and commanding', rises to her 'fancy'. Such visions are glossed by Radcliffe's epigraph to Chapter X of Volume IV, taken from Samuel Rogers's popular piece ...
Even Montoni, 'such as she had seen him in his days of triumph, bold, spirited and commanding', rises to her 'fancy'. Such visions are glossed by Radcliffe's epigraph to Chapter X of Volume IV, taken from Samuel Rogers's popular piece ...
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She described with equal minuteness the magnificence she had seen, and that from which she had been excluded; while Emily's vivid fancy, as she listened with the ardent curiosity of youth, heightened the scenes she heard of; ...
She described with equal minuteness the magnificence she had seen, and that from which she had been excluded; while Emily's vivid fancy, as she listened with the ardent curiosity of youth, heightened the scenes she heard of; ...
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'I remember that in my youth this gloom used to call forth to my fancy a thousand fairy visions, and romantic images; and, I own, I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm, which wakes the poet's dream.
'I remember that in my youth this gloom used to call forth to my fancy a thousand fairy visions, and romantic images; and, I own, I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm, which wakes the poet's dream.
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what vagaries fancy has been playing in your mind. If she has given you one of her spells, you need not envy those of the fairies.' 'If it is strong enough to enchant your judgment, sir,' said Emily, 'while I disclose her images, ...
what vagaries fancy has been playing in your mind. If she has given you one of her spells, you need not envy those of the fairies.' 'If it is strong enough to enchant your judgment, sir,' said Emily, 'while I disclose her images, ...
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