The Mysteries of UdolphoCourier Corporation, 05/03/2014 - 624 من الصفحات Stranded in a gloomy medieval fortress, an orphaned heroine battles the devious schemes of her guardians as well as her own pensive visions and melancholy fancies. Generations of readers have thrilled to The Mysteries of Udolpho, one of the most popular of the early Gothic novels, and considered a landmark in the realm of psychological fiction. Set in 1584, the tale unfolds amid the secret chambers of a chateau in southern France and a castle in the remote Apennines, populated by pirates, brigands, ghosts, and specters. Emily St. Aubert, imprisoned by her rapacious guardian Count Montoni and his sadistic wife, struggles to reconcile her father’s teachings of reserve and moderation with her own reckless passions. Emily’s attempts to control her emotions and resolve her suspicions and self-doubts offer a haunting and hypnotic pre-Freudian exploration of the psyche. Sir Walter Scott proclaimed author Ann Radcliffe “the first poetess of romantic fiction,” and this thriller became a bestseller upon its 1794 publication. The novel exercised a powerful influence on the Marquis de Sade, Edgar Allan Poe, and other mystery writers. It achieved further renown with a satirical treatment in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young character is profoundly affected by the dungeons and crypts of Castle Udolpho and their scenes of bloodshed, mayhem, and terror. The Mysteries of Udolpho continues to enchant modern readers with the fairy-tale elements of its suspenseful plot and its dreamlike, surrealistic portrayals of human consciousness. |
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... leaves, while the heavy shower has pattered above, and not a rain drop reached me! How often I have sat with a book in ... leave of the avenue; Madame Quesnel is partial to the poplar, and tells me how much it adorns a villa of her uncle ...
... leaves, while the heavy shower has pattered above, and not a rain drop reached me! How often I have sat with a book in ... leave of the avenue; Madame Quesnel is partial to the poplar, and tells me how much it adorns a villa of her uncle ...
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... leaves, And checquers all the ground, and guides them to the bow'r, The long haunted bow'r, where the nightingale grieves ... leave him, till the stars are all burnt out, While, in strange-looking shapes, they frisk about the ground, And ...
... leaves, And checquers all the ground, and guides them to the bow'r, The long haunted bow'r, where the nightingale grieves ... leave him, till the stars are all burnt out, While, in strange-looking shapes, they frisk about the ground, And ...
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... leave of M. Barreaux, whom he found botanizing in the wood near his chateau, and who, when he was told the purpose of St. Aubert's visit, expressed a degree of concern, such as his friend had thought it was scarcely possible for him to ...
... leave of M. Barreaux, whom he found botanizing in the wood near his chateau, and who, when he was told the purpose of St. Aubert's visit, expressed a degree of concern, such as his friend had thought it was scarcely possible for him to ...
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... leave of him than is usual after so short an acquaintance. Valancourt talked long by the side of the carriage; seemed more than once to be going, but still lingered, and appeared to search anxiously for topics of conversation to account ...
... leave of him than is usual after so short an acquaintance. Valancourt talked long by the side of the carriage; seemed more than once to be going, but still lingered, and appeared to search anxiously for topics of conversation to account ...
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Ann Radcliffe. his delay. At length he took leave. As he went, St. Aubert observed him look with an earnest and ... leaving the pine forests behind, wound among rocky precipices. The evening twilight again fell over the scene, and the ...
Ann Radcliffe. his delay. At length he took leave. As he went, St. Aubert observed him look with an earnest and ... leaving the pine forests behind, wound among rocky precipices. The evening twilight again fell over the scene, and the ...
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