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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... attention with the trea- sures of knowledge and the illuminations of genius . To this spot he had been attached from his infancy . He had often made excursions to it when a boy , and the impressions of delight given to his mind by the ...
... attention with the trea- sures of knowledge and the illuminations of genius . To this spot he had been attached from his infancy . He had often made excursions to it when a boy , and the impressions of delight given to his mind by the ...
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... attention . She listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still ...
... attention . She listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still ...
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... attention , which his guest mistook for the humility of wonder . The latter , indeed , described the few festivities which the tur- bulence of that period permitted to the court of Henry the Third , with a minuteness , that somewhat ...
... attention , which his guest mistook for the humility of wonder . The latter , indeed , described the few festivities which the tur- bulence of that period permitted to the court of Henry the Third , with a minuteness , that somewhat ...
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... attention he gave them , and the modulated voice , and softened look that accompanied it , came from his heart , and spoke to theirs . At this melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron , his only surviving ...
... attention he gave them , and the modulated voice , and softened look that accompanied it , came from his heart , and spoke to theirs . At this melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron , his only surviving ...
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... attention , did not escape his observation . When he could dis- engage himself from the assiduities of the other ladies , he sometimes addressed Emily : but she knew nothing of Parisian fashions , or Parisian operas ; and her modesty ...
... attention , did not escape his observation . When he could dis- engage himself from the assiduities of the other ladies , he sometimes addressed Emily : but she knew nothing of Parisian fashions , or Parisian operas ; and her modesty ...
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