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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... hear the tones of the instrument , which were awakened by the hand of taste , and uttered a plaintive air , whose exquisite melody engaged all her attention . She listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the ...
... hear the tones of the instrument , which were awakened by the hand of taste , and uttered a plaintive air , whose exquisite melody engaged all her attention . She listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the ...
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... exist elsewhere ; - especially in so remote a country as this , where you can neither hear nor see any thing , and can in short be scarcely conscious of life . " " I live for my family and myself , " The Mysteries of Udolpho 13.
... exist elsewhere ; - especially in so remote a country as this , where you can neither hear nor see any thing , and can in short be scarcely conscious of life . " " I live for my family and myself , " The Mysteries of Udolpho 13.
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... dare venture to repeat some verses I made one evening in these very woods . " " Nay , ” replied St. Aubert , “ dismiss the almost , and venture quite ; let * THOMSON . us hear what vagaries fancy has been playing in your 16 Ann Radcliffe.
... dare venture to repeat some verses I made one evening in these very woods . " " Nay , ” replied St. Aubert , “ dismiss the almost , and venture quite ; let * THOMSON . us hear what vagaries fancy has been playing in your 16 Ann Radcliffe.
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... hear that nothing which was past and irremediable ought to prevent the festivity of the present hour . St. Aubert , when he was told that company were expected , felt a mixed emotion of disgust and indignation against the insensibility ...
... hear that nothing which was past and irremediable ought to prevent the festivity of the present hour . St. Aubert , when he was told that company were expected , felt a mixed emotion of disgust and indignation against the insensibility ...
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... hear of a road , to pene- trate further among the mountains , and , bending his way rather more to the south , to emerge into Rousillon , and coast the Mediterranean along part of that country to Languedoc . Soon after mid - day , they ...
... hear of a road , to pene- trate further among the mountains , and , bending his way rather more to the south , to emerge into Rousillon , and coast the Mediterranean along part of that country to Languedoc . Soon after mid - day , they ...
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