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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... Quesnel , the brother of his wife , and retired to a small estate in Gascony , where con- jugal felicity , and parental duties , divided his attention with the trea- sures of knowledge and the illuminations of genius . To this spot he ...
... Quesnel , the brother of his wife , and retired to a small estate in Gascony , where con- jugal felicity , and parental duties , divided his attention with the trea- sures of knowledge and the illuminations of genius . To this spot he ...
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... Quesnel already entered . They had left Paris some days before , and were on the way to their estate , only ten leagues distant from La Vallée , and which Monsieur Quesnel had purchased several years before of St. Aubert . This ...
... Quesnel already entered . They had left Paris some days before , and were on the way to their estate , only ten leagues distant from La Vallée , and which Monsieur Quesnel had purchased several years before of St. Aubert . This ...
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... Quesnel began the display of his intelligence and his connections ; while St. Aubert , who had been long enough in ... Quesnel , were such as St. Aubert forbore to reply to , for he knew that his guest had neither humanity to feel ...
... Quesnel began the display of his intelligence and his connections ; while St. Aubert , who had been long enough in ... Quesnel , were such as St. Aubert forbore to reply to , for he knew that his guest had neither humanity to feel ...
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... Quesnel , without seeming to notice the words of St. Aubert ; " for I design , next summer , to bring here my friends , the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis Ramont , to pass a month or two with me . " To St. Aubert's enquiry , as to ...
... Quesnel , without seeming to notice the words of St. Aubert ; " for I design , next summer , to bring here my friends , the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis Ramont , to pass a month or two with me . " To St. Aubert's enquiry , as to ...
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... Quesnel , " I will not dispute with you . You must return to Paris before our ideas can at all agree . But à - propos of Venice , I have some thoughts of going thither , next summer ; events may call me to take possession of that same ...
... Quesnel , " I will not dispute with you . You must return to Paris before our ideas can at all agree . But à - propos of Venice , I have some thoughts of going thither , next summer ; events may call me to take possession of that same ...
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