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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... dear relations mingle into bliss . THOMSON ON the pleasant banks of the Garonne , in the province of Gascony , stood , in the year 1584 , the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert . From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne ...
... dear relations mingle into bliss . THOMSON ON the pleasant banks of the Garonne , in the province of Gascony , stood , in the year 1584 , the chateau of Monsieur St. Aubert . From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne ...
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... dear father , " said Emily , while a sudden tear started to her eye , " how exactly you describe what I have felt so often , and which I thought nobody had ever felt but myself ! But hark ! here comes the sweeping sound over the wood ...
... dear father , " said Emily , while a sudden tear started to her eye , " how exactly you describe what I have felt so often , and which I thought nobody had ever felt but myself ! But hark ! here comes the sweeping sound over the wood ...
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... dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts I have so often given you , and which your own experience has so often shewn you to be wise . " Your sorrow is useless . Do not receive this as merely a common- place remark , but let ...
... dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts I have so often given you , and which your own experience has so often shewn you to be wise . " Your sorrow is useless . Do not receive this as merely a common- place remark , but let ...
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... Dear brother , " said she , " I am concerned to see you look so very ill ; do , pray , have advice ! " St. Aubert answered , with a melancholy smile , that he felt himself much as usual ; but Emily's fears made her now fancy that her ...
... Dear brother , " said she , " I am concerned to see you look so very ill ; do , pray , have advice ! " St. Aubert answered , with a melancholy smile , that he felt himself much as usual ; but Emily's fears made her now fancy that her ...
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... dear parent , who , whenever she had been from home , used to welcome her return with smiles and fondness ; now , all was silent and forsaken . But what reason and effort may fail to do , time effects . Week after week passed away , and ...
... dear parent , who , whenever she had been from home , used to welcome her return with smiles and fondness ; now , all was silent and forsaken . But what reason and effort may fail to do , time effects . Week after week passed away , and ...
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