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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... enquired of Michael the distance to the hamlet he had mentioned , but the man could not with certainty tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left ...
... enquired of Michael the distance to the hamlet he had mentioned , but the man could not with certainty tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left ...
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... enquired repeatedly how far they were from Beaujeu ; when , learning that it was at two leagues ' distance , his distress increased , since he knew not how Valancourt , in his present state , would bear the motion of the carriage , and ...
... enquired repeatedly how far they were from Beaujeu ; when , learning that it was at two leagues ' distance , his distress increased , since he knew not how Valancourt , in his present state , would bear the motion of the carriage , and ...
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... enquiring the occasion of her sorrow , learned that her hus- band , who was a shepherd , and lived here in the summer months to watch over the flocks he led to feed upon these mountains , had lost , on the preceding night , his little ...
... enquiring the occasion of her sorrow , learned that her hus- band , who was a shepherd , and lived here in the summer months to watch over the flocks he led to feed upon these mountains , had lost , on the preceding night , his little ...
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... enquired how much money was yet wanting to replace the stolen sheep , and found , that it was a sum very little short of all he had about him . He was perplexed and distressed . “ This sum then , ” said he to himself , " would make this ...
... enquired how much money was yet wanting to replace the stolen sheep , and found , that it was a sum very little short of all he had about him . He was perplexed and distressed . “ This sum then , ” said he to himself , " would make this ...
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... enquired what had occa- sioned this lamentable change ; but the old man was silent , and Emily , whose interest was awakened by the fear he had expressed , and above all by a recollection of her father's agitation , repeated the ...
... enquired what had occa- sioned this lamentable change ; but the old man was silent , and Emily , whose interest was awakened by the fear he had expressed , and above all by a recollection of her father's agitation , repeated the ...
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