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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... immediately , it had lurked in her veins , and occasioned the heavy languor of which she had complained . St. Aubert , whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other consideration , detained the physician in his house . He remem- bered ...
... immediately , it had lurked in her veins , and occasioned the heavy languor of which she had complained . St. Aubert , whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other consideration , detained the physician in his house . He remem- bered ...
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... immediately . But he was informed , that Madame Cheron had been asked to meet him ; and , when he looked at Emily , and considered that a time might come when the enmity of her uncle would be prejudicial to her , he deter- mined not to ...
... immediately . But he was informed , that Madame Cheron had been asked to meet him ; and , when he looked at Emily , and considered that a time might come when the enmity of her uncle would be prejudicial to her , he deter- mined not to ...
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... immediately answered the call , and endeavoured to make his way through the thicket that clothed the steeps , following the direction of the sound . After much struggle over brambles and precipices , he reached Michael , and at length ...
... immediately answered the call , and endeavoured to make his way through the thicket that clothed the steeps , following the direction of the sound . After much struggle over brambles and precipices , he reached Michael , and at length ...
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... immediately opposite to the spot where the travellers rested , a rocky pass opened toward Gascony . Here no sign of cultivation appeared . The rocks of granite , that screened the glen , rose abruptly from their base , and stretched ...
... immediately opposite to the spot where the travellers rested , a rocky pass opened toward Gascony . Here no sign of cultivation appeared . The rocks of granite , that screened the glen , rose abruptly from their base , and stretched ...
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... immediately over one of the crosses she had before observed . These were hieroglyphics that told a plain and dread- ful story . She forbore to point it out to St. Aubert , but it threw a gloom over her spirits , and made her anxious to ...
... immediately over one of the crosses she had before observed . These were hieroglyphics that told a plain and dread- ful story . She forbore to point it out to St. Aubert , but it threw a gloom over her spirits , and made her anxious to ...
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