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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... alarmed , yet knew not wherefore ; the melancholy gloom of evening , and the profound stillness of the place , interrupted only by the light trembling of leaves , heightened her fanciful apprehensions , and she was desirous of quitting ...
... alarmed , yet knew not wherefore ; the melancholy gloom of evening , and the profound stillness of the place , interrupted only by the light trembling of leaves , heightened her fanciful apprehensions , and she was desirous of quitting ...
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... alarmed , she caught up her lute , and hurried away . Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert she found in a little path that wound along the sides of the glen . Having reached a green summit , shadowed by palm - trees , and over- looking the ...
... alarmed , she caught up her lute , and hurried away . Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert she found in a little path that wound along the sides of the glen . Having reached a green summit , shadowed by palm - trees , and over- looking the ...
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... alarmed Madame St. Aubert . When they were alone she was tempted to enquire the occasion of it , but the delicacy of mind , which had ever appeared in his conduct , restrained her : she considered that , if St. Aubert wished her to be ...
... alarmed Madame St. Aubert . When they were alone she was tempted to enquire the occasion of it , but the delicacy of mind , which had ever appeared in his conduct , restrained her : she considered that , if St. Aubert wished her to be ...
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... alarmed on his account , for that he had no doubt he should be able to support himself very well ; and then he talked of the accident as a slight one . The muleteer being now returned with Valancourt's horse , assisted him into the ...
... alarmed on his account , for that he had no doubt he should be able to support himself very well ; and then he talked of the accident as a slight one . The muleteer being now returned with Valancourt's horse , assisted him into the ...
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... alarmed by this circumstance ; her fears , ever alive for her father , suggested that he was very ill , and she rose in haste to go to him . Having paused , however , to let the persons in the gallery pass before she opened her door ...
... alarmed by this circumstance ; her fears , ever alive for her father , suggested that he was very ill , and she rose in haste to go to him . Having paused , however , to let the persons in the gallery pass before she opened her door ...
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