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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... circumstances . The green pastures along which he had so often bounded in the exultation of health , and youthful freedom - the woods , under whose refreshing shade he had first indulged that pensive melancholy , which afterwards made a ...
... circumstances . The green pastures along which he had so often bounded in the exultation of health , and youthful freedom - the woods , under whose refreshing shade he had first indulged that pensive melancholy , which afterwards made a ...
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... circumstances , he taught himself a les- son of fortitude ; for he was often obliged to witness , with seeming indif- ference , the tears and struggles which his caution occasioned her . In person , Emily resembled her mother ; having ...
... circumstances , he taught himself a les- son of fortitude ; for he was often obliged to witness , with seeming indif- ference , the tears and struggles which his caution occasioned her . In person , Emily resembled her mother ; having ...
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... circumstances very remarkable , she was irresistibly restrained from mentioning them ; secretly determining , however , never again to visit the fishing - house without Monsieur or Madame St. Aubert . They returned pensively to the ...
... circumstances very remarkable , she was irresistibly restrained from mentioning them ; secretly determining , however , never again to visit the fishing - house without Monsieur or Madame St. Aubert . They returned pensively to the ...
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... circumstances , with which , however , you must at length have been made acquainted . But your anxiety has defeated my pur- pose ; you suffer as much from this , perhaps , as you will do from a knowledge of the facts I have to relate ...
... circumstances , with which , however , you must at length have been made acquainted . But your anxiety has defeated my pur- pose ; you suffer as much from this , perhaps , as you will do from a knowledge of the facts I have to relate ...
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... circumstances of imagery around her , she indulged the pensive tranquillity which they inspired ; and while she leaned on her window , waiting till St. Aubert should descend to breakfast , her The Mysteries of Udolpho 69.
... circumstances of imagery around her , she indulged the pensive tranquillity which they inspired ; and while she leaned on her window , waiting till St. Aubert should descend to breakfast , her The Mysteries of Udolpho 69.
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