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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He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive ...
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive ...
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Go – tell the Goddess of this fairy scene, When next her light steps wind these wood-walks green, Whence all his tears, his tender sorrows, rise: Ah! paint her form, her soul-illumin'd eyes, The sweet expression of her pensive face, ...
Go – tell the Goddess of this fairy scene, When next her light steps wind these wood-walks green, Whence all his tears, his tender sorrows, rise: Ah! paint her form, her soul-illumin'd eyes, The sweet expression of her pensive face, ...
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stillness of the place, interrupted only by the light trembling of leaves, heightened her fanciful apprehensions, and she was desirous of quitting the building, but perceived herself grow faint, and sat down.
stillness of the place, interrupted only by the light trembling of leaves, heightened her fanciful apprehensions, and she was desirous of quitting the building, but perceived herself grow faint, and sat down.
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'On the banks of the Brenta, indeed,' continued St Aubert, 'where its spiry form is intermingled with the pine, and the cypress, and where it plays over light and elegant porticos and colonnades, it, unquestionably, adorns the scene, ...
'On the banks of the Brenta, indeed,' continued St Aubert, 'where its spiry form is intermingled with the pine, and the cypress, and where it plays over light and elegant porticos and colonnades, it, unquestionably, adorns the scene, ...
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Ah! what light is yonder? But it is gone. And now it gleams again, near the root of that large chesnut: look, sir!' 'Are you such an admirer of nature,' said St Aubert, 'and so little acquainted with her appearances as not to know that ...
Ah! what light is yonder? But it is gone. And now it gleams again, near the root of that large chesnut: look, sir!' 'Are you such an admirer of nature,' said St Aubert, 'and so little acquainted with her appearances as not to know that ...
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