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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... followed M. and Madame St. Aubert from this spot , her lute was left on a window seat . She felt alarmed , yet knew not wherefore ; the melancholy gloom of evening , and the profound stillness of the place , interrupted only by the ...
... followed M. and Madame St. Aubert from this spot , her lute was left on a window seat . She felt alarmed , yet knew not wherefore ; the melancholy gloom of evening , and the profound stillness of the place , interrupted only by the ...
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... followed by a long train of the peasantry , who were sincere mourners of this excellent woman . On his return from the funeral , St. Aubert shut himself in his cham- ber . When he came forth , it was with a serene countenance , though ...
... followed by a long train of the peasantry , who were sincere mourners of this excellent woman . On his return from the funeral , St. Aubert shut himself in his cham- ber . When he came forth , it was with a serene countenance , though ...
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... followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour , where sat Mons . and Madame Quesnel , who received him with a stately polite- ness , and , after a few formal words of condolement , seemed to have for- gotten that they ever had a sister ...
... followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour , where sat Mons . and Madame Quesnel , who received him with a stately polite- ness , and , after a few formal words of condolement , seemed to have for- gotten that they ever had a sister ...
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... followed by a couple of dogs . The stranger was in a hunter's dress . His gun was slung across his shoulders , the hunter's horn hung from his belt , and in his hand was a small pike , which , as he held it , added to the manly grace of ...
... followed by a couple of dogs . The stranger was in a hunter's dress . His gun was slung across his shoulders , the hunter's horn hung from his belt , and in his hand was a small pike , which , as he held it , added to the manly grace of ...
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... followed by a groan , and St. Aubert's horror may be imagined , when in the next instant he thought he heard the faint voice of Valancourt . He now himself bade the muleteer stop ; and , pro- nouncing the name of Valancourt , was ...
... followed by a groan , and St. Aubert's horror may be imagined , when in the next instant he thought he heard the faint voice of Valancourt . He now himself bade the muleteer stop ; and , pro- nouncing the name of Valancourt , was ...
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