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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... Pyrenées , whose summits , veiled in clouds , or exhibiting awful forms , seen , and lost again , as the partial vapours rolled along , were sometimes barren , and gleamed through the blue tinge of air , and sometimes frowned with ...
... Pyrenées , whose summits , veiled in clouds , or exhibiting awful forms , seen , and lost again , as the partial vapours rolled along , were sometimes barren , and gleamed through the blue tinge of air , and sometimes frowned with ...
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... Pyrenées . Adjoining the library was a green - house , stored with scarce and beautiful plants ; for one of the amusements of St. Aubert was the study of botany , and among the neighbouring mountains , which afforded a luxurious feast ...
... Pyrenées . Adjoining the library was a green - house , stored with scarce and beautiful plants ; for one of the amusements of St. Aubert was the study of botany , and among the neighbouring mountains , which afforded a luxurious feast ...
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... Pyrenées , and , after foaming among their rocks , wound its silent way beneath the shades it reflected . Above the woods , that screened this glen , rose the lofty summits of the Pyrenées , which often burst boldly on the eye through ...
... Pyrenées , and , after foaming among their rocks , wound its silent way beneath the shades it reflected . Above the woods , that screened this glen , rose the lofty summits of the Pyrenées , which often burst boldly on the eye through ...
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... Pyrenées to Languedoc , chose one that , winding over the heights , afforded more extensive views and greater variety of romantic scenery . He turned a little out of his way to take leave of M. Barreaux , whom he found botanizing in the ...
... Pyrenées to Languedoc , chose one that , winding over the heights , afforded more extensive views and greater variety of romantic scenery . He turned a little out of his way to take leave of M. Barreaux , whom he found botanizing in the ...
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... Pyrenées , and winding its blue waves towards the Bay of Biscay . The ruggedness of the unfrequented road often obliged the wander- ers to alight from their little carriage , but they thought themselves amply repaid for this ...
... Pyrenées , and winding its blue waves towards the Bay of Biscay . The ruggedness of the unfrequented road often obliged the wander- ers to alight from their little carriage , but they thought themselves amply repaid for this ...
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