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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... felt the tender enthu- siasm stealing upon himself in a degree that became almost painful ; his features assumed a serious air , and he could not forbear secretly sigh- ing— “ Perhaps I shall some time look back to these moments , as to ...
... felt the tender enthu- siasm stealing upon himself in a degree that became almost painful ; his features assumed a serious air , and he could not forbear secretly sigh- ing— “ Perhaps I shall some time look back to these moments , as to ...
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... felt , per- haps , for the first time , resentment lighted in her heart ; and , though a regard for her own dignity , united with considerations of prudence , restrained her expression of this resentment , there was ever after a mild ...
... felt , per- haps , for the first time , resentment lighted in her heart ; and , though a regard for her own dignity , united with considerations of prudence , restrained her expression of this resentment , there was ever after a mild ...
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... felt , as a tear stole to her eye , that though splendour may grace happiness , virtue only can bestow it . " It is now twelve years , St. Aubert , " said M. Quesnel , “ since I pur- chased your family estate . ” — “ Somewhere ...
... felt , as a tear stole to her eye , that though splendour may grace happiness , virtue only can bestow it . " It is now twelve years , St. Aubert , " said M. Quesnel , “ since I pur- chased your family estate . ” — “ Somewhere ...
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... felt so often , and which I thought nobody had ever felt but myself ! But hark ! here comes the sweeping sound over the wood - tops ; -now it dies away ; -how solemn the stillness that succeeds ! Now the breeze swells again . It is like ...
... felt so often , and which I thought nobody had ever felt but myself ! But hark ! here comes the sweeping sound over the wood - tops ; -now it dies away ; -how solemn the stillness that succeeds ! Now the breeze swells again . It is like ...
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... felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she sunk at once under the ...
... felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she sunk at once under the ...
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