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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... fancy , as she listened with the ardent curiosity of youth , heightened the scenes she heard of ; and Madame St. Aubert , looking on her family , felt , as a tear stole to her eye , that though splendour may grace happiness , virtue ...
... fancy , as she listened with the ardent curiosity of youth , heightened the scenes she heard of ; and Madame St. Aubert , looking on her family , felt , as a tear stole to her eye , that though splendour may grace happiness , virtue ...
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... fancy a thousand fairy visions , and romantic images ; and , I own , I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm , which wakes the poet's dream : I can linger , with solemn steps , under the deep shades , send for- ward a ...
... fancy a thousand fairy visions , and romantic images ; and , I own , I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm , which wakes the poet's dream : I can linger , with solemn steps , under the deep shades , send for- ward a ...
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... fancy has been playing in your mind . If she has given you one of her spells , you need not envy those of the fairies . " “ If it is strong enough to enchant your judgment , sir , ” said Emily , " while I disclose her images , I need ...
... fancy has been playing in your mind . If she has given you one of her spells , you need not envy those of the fairies . " “ If it is strong enough to enchant your judgment , sir , ” said Emily , " while I disclose her images , I need ...
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... fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . Emily would have been amused by the new characters she saw , and the varied conversation that passed during dinner , which was served in a style of splendour she had seldom seen ...
... fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . Emily would have been amused by the new characters she saw , and the varied conversation that passed during dinner , which was served in a style of splendour she had seldom seen ...
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... fancy , struck with the grandeur of the objects around , gradually yielded to delightful impressions . The road now descended into glens , con- fined by stupendous walls of rock , grey and barren , except where shrubs fringed their ...
... fancy , struck with the grandeur of the objects around , gradually yielded to delightful impressions . The road now descended into glens , con- fined by stupendous walls of rock , grey and barren , except where shrubs fringed their ...
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