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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... fear its charm , or think it could beguile ! These lines were not inscribed to any person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubtedly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle ...
... fear its charm , or think it could beguile ! These lines were not inscribed to any person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubtedly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle ...
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... fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left the shepherd and his cabin far behind , and the scene became so obscured in twilight , that the eye could not follow the distant ...
... fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left the shepherd and his cabin far behind , and the scene became so obscured in twilight , that the eye could not follow the distant ...
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... fear you will be wretchedly accommodated , " said he : " the inhabitants of these mountains are a simple people , who are not only without the lux- uries of life , but almost destitute of what in other places are held to be its ...
... fear you will be wretchedly accommodated , " said he : " the inhabitants of these mountains are a simple people , who are not only without the lux- uries of life , but almost destitute of what in other places are held to be its ...
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... fear , which , however , the voice and conversation of Valancourt somewhat repressed . When they had been some time ascending , St. Aubert complained of weariness , and they stopped to rest upon a little green summit , where the trees ...
... fear , which , however , the voice and conversation of Valancourt somewhat repressed . When they had been some time ascending , St. Aubert complained of weariness , and they stopped to rest upon a little green summit , where the trees ...
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... fear either for himself , or his master ; and having disposed of him , for the night , in a cottage on the skirts of ... fears , ever alive for her father , suggested that he was very ill , and she rose in haste to go to him ...
... fear either for himself , or his master ; and having disposed of him , for the night , in a cottage on the skirts of ... fears , ever alive for her father , suggested that he was very ill , and she rose in haste to go to him ...
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