The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of PoetryCosimo, Inc., 01/11/2008 - 672 من الصفحات Sir Walter Scott esteemed her "the first poetess of romantic fiction." Jane Austen borrowed prodigiously from her-and sent up the steamy overwroughtness of her writing-in Northanger Abbey. British author ANN RADCLIFFE (1764-1823) pioneered the Gothic romance as popular fiction with her 1789 debut novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, and went on to wild success with further works of demure heroines lost in the perils of supernatural melodrama. In this 1794 thriller, perhaps the quintessential example of the genre and Radcliffe's most popular work, the young and beautiful orphan Emily St. Aubert is imprisoned at sinister Castle Udolpho, and suffers frustrated romance and the hauntings of ghosts. A vital example of early horror and later a profound influence on pulp fiction, this is essential reading for both fans of the genre and those interested in its psychological and thematic development. |
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... Italian , and an heiress by birth ; and , by nature and education , was a vain and frivolous woman . They now determined to pass the night with St. Aubert ; and as the chateau was not large enough to accommodate their servants , the ...
... Italian , and an heiress by birth ; and , by nature and education , was a vain and frivolous woman . They now determined to pass the night with St. Aubert ; and as the chateau was not large enough to accommodate their servants , the ...
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... Italy . " Emily was somewhat surprised to hear him talk of being tempted to remain abroad , after he had mentioned his presence to be so necessary at Paris , that it was with difficulty he could steal away for a month or two ; but St ...
... Italy . " Emily was somewhat surprised to hear him talk of being tempted to remain abroad , after he had mentioned his presence to be so necessary at Paris , that it was with difficulty he could steal away for a month or two ; but St ...
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... Italian gentlemen , of whom one was named Montoni , a distant relation of Madame Quesnel , a man about forty , of an uncommonly handsome person , with features manly and expressive , but whose countenance exhibited , upon the whole ...
... Italian gentlemen , of whom one was named Montoni , a distant relation of Madame Quesnel , a man about forty , of an uncommonly handsome person , with features manly and expressive , but whose countenance exhibited , upon the whole ...
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... Italy , and he spoke of the commotions which at that period agitated the country ; talked of party differences with ... Italian states . He then turned to the ladies , and talked with the same eloquence , of Parisian fashions , the ...
... Italy , and he spoke of the commotions which at that period agitated the country ; talked of party differences with ... Italian states . He then turned to the ladies , and talked with the same eloquence , of Parisian fashions , the ...
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... Italian poets ; while Emily's pencil enabled her to preserve some of those combinations of forms , which charmed her at every step . The loneliness of the road , where , only now and then , a peasant was seen driving his mule , or some ...
... Italian poets ; while Emily's pencil enabled her to preserve some of those combinations of forms , which charmed her at every step . The loneliness of the road , where , only now and then , a peasant was seen driving his mule , or some ...
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