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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... fascinating ; and though , in consideration of Madame St. Aubert's distress , he restrained the expres- sion of his own , and endeavoured to bear it , as he meant , with philos- ophy , he had , in truth , no philosophy 6 Ann Radcliffe.
... fascinating ; and though , in consideration of Madame St. Aubert's distress , he restrained the expres- sion of his own , and endeavoured to bear it , as he meant , with philos- ophy , he had , in truth , no philosophy 6 Ann Radcliffe.
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... endeavoured , with unremitting effort , to counteract those traits in her disposition , which might hereafter lead her from happiness . She had discovered in her early years uncommon delicacy of mind , warm affections , and ready ...
... endeavoured , with unremitting effort , to counteract those traits in her disposition , which might hereafter lead her from happiness . She had discovered in her early years uncommon delicacy of mind , warm affections , and ready ...
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... endeavoured to teach you , from your earliest youth , the duty of self - command ; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life , not only as it preserves us in the various and dangerous temptations that call us ...
... endeavoured to teach you , from your earliest youth , the duty of self - command ; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life , not only as it preserves us in the various and dangerous temptations that call us ...
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... endeavoured to soften the terror of St. Aubert by assurances that he was not materially hurt , the wound being only in his arm . St. Aubert , with the muleteer , assisted him to dismount , and he sat down on the bank of the road , where ...
... endeavoured to soften the terror of St. Aubert by assurances that he was not materially hurt , the wound being only in his arm . St. Aubert , with the muleteer , assisted him to dismount , and he sat down on the bank of the road , where ...
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... endeavoured to make his way through the thicket that clothed the steeps , following the direction of the sound . After much struggle over brambles and precipices , he reached Michael , and at length prevailed with him to be silent , and ...
... endeavoured to make his way through the thicket that clothed the steeps , following the direction of the sound . After much struggle over brambles and precipices , he reached Michael , and at length prevailed with him to be silent , and ...
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