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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... cottages , the eye , after having scaled the cliffs above , delighted to repose . To the north , and to the east , the plains of Guienne and Languedoc were lost in the mist of dis- tance ; on the west , Gascony was bounded by the waters ...
... cottages , the eye , after having scaled the cliffs above , delighted to repose . To the north , and to the east , the plains of Guienne and Languedoc were lost in the mist of dis- tance ; on the west , Gascony was bounded by the waters ...
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... cottage , ren- dered interesting to a stranger by its neat simplicity , or the beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection ...
... cottage , ren- dered interesting to a stranger by its neat simplicity , or the beauty of the surrounding scene ; and considerable additions were necessary to make it a comfortable family residence . St. Aubert felt a kind of affection ...
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... rustic hall , and two excellent sitting rooms . The first floor , for the cottage had no second story , was laid out in bed - chambers , except one apartment that opened to a balcony , and which was The Mysteries of Udolpho 5.
... rustic hall , and two excellent sitting rooms . The first floor , for the cottage had no second story , was laid out in bed - chambers , except one apartment that opened to a balcony , and which was The Mysteries of Udolpho 5.
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... cottage - lights , now seen , and now lost - were circum- stances that awakened her mind into effort , and led to enthusiasm and poetry . Her favourite walk was to a little fishing - house , belonging to St. Aubert , in a woody glen ...
... cottage - lights , now seen , and now lost - were circum- stances that awakened her mind into effort , and led to enthusiasm and poetry . Her favourite walk was to a little fishing - house , belonging to St. Aubert , in a woody glen ...
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... cottage . For the mind , also , they had provided , by a work on botany , written by M. Barreaux , and by several of the Latin and Italian poets ; while Emily's pencil enabled her to preserve some of those combinations of forms , which ...
... cottage . For the mind , also , they had provided , by a work on botany , written by M. Barreaux , and by several of the Latin and Italian poets ; while Emily's pencil enabled her to preserve some of those combinations of forms , which ...
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