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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... heart must feel , his tongue would say : Yet ah ! not all his heart must sadly feel ! How oft the flow'ret's silken leaves conceal The drug that steals the vital spark away ! And who that gazes on that angel - smile , Would fear its ...
... heart must feel , his tongue would say : Yet ah ! not all his heart must sadly feel ! How oft the flow'ret's silken leaves conceal The drug that steals the vital spark away ! And who that gazes on that angel - smile , Would fear its ...
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... 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 reserve in her manner towards M. Quesnel , which he both understood ...
... 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 reserve in her manner towards M. Quesnel , which he both understood ...
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... heart , nothing can be hoped from an insensible one ; that , on the other hand , is all vice - vice , of which the deformity is not softened , or the effect consoled for , by any semblance or possibility of good . You know my sufferings ...
... heart , nothing can be hoped from an insensible one ; that , on the other hand , is all vice - vice , of which the deformity is not softened , or the effect consoled for , by any semblance or possibility of good . You know my sufferings ...
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... heart . St. Aubert unhappy , seemed to be the sole idea that occupied his mind . It was in manners , more than in words , that he appeared to sympathize with his friends : he spoke little on the subject of their grief ; but the minute ...
... heart . St. Aubert unhappy , seemed to be the sole idea that occupied his mind . It was in manners , more than in words , that he appeared to sympathize with his friends : he spoke little on the subject of their grief ; but the minute ...
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... heart , and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy , which gives to every object a mellower tint , and breathes a sacred charm over all around . They had ...
... heart , and fill it with the certainty of a present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy , which gives to every object a mellower tint , and breathes a sacred charm over all around . They had ...
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