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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... aunt she received an answer , abounding more in common- place condolement , than in traits of real sorrow , which assured her , that a servant should be sent to conduct her to La Vallée , for that her own time was so much occupied by ...
... aunt she received an answer , abounding more in common- place condolement , than in traits of real sorrow , which assured her , that a servant should be sent to conduct her to La Vallée , for that her own time was so much occupied by ...
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... aunt , Madame Cheron , in which , after some commonplace con- dolement and advice , she invited her to Tholouse , and added , that , as her late brother had entrusted Emily's education to her , she should consider herself bound to ...
... aunt , Madame Cheron , in which , after some commonplace con- dolement and advice , she invited her to Tholouse , and added , that , as her late brother had entrusted Emily's education to her , she should consider herself bound to ...
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... aunt , in an accent which equally implied inquisitiveness and censure . “ Some idle admirer of yours I sup- pose ; but I believed niece you had a greater sense of propriety , than to have received the visits of any young man in your ...
... aunt , in an accent which equally implied inquisitiveness and censure . “ Some idle admirer of yours I sup- pose ; but I believed niece you had a greater sense of propriety , than to have received the visits of any young man in your ...
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... the grounds . The fear of meeting him , particularly after the declaration he had made , and of incurring a censure , which her aunt might so reasonably bestow , if it was known , that she was met by The Mysteries of Udolpho 107.
... the grounds . The fear of meeting him , particularly after the declaration he had made , and of incurring a censure , which her aunt might so reasonably bestow , if it was known , that she was met by The Mysteries of Udolpho 107.
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... aunt , impa- tient to be gone , ordered the carriage to draw up ; and , while she passed to the hall door , Emily gave another look into the library , and another farewell glance over the garden , and then followed . Old Theresa stood ...
... aunt , impa- tient to be gone , ordered the carriage to draw up ; and , while she passed to the hall door , Emily gave another look into the library , and another farewell glance over the garden , and then followed . Old Theresa stood ...
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