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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... leaves , while the heavy shower has pat- tered above , and not a rain drop reached me ! How often I have sat with a ... leave of the avenue ; Madame Quesnel is partial to the poplar , and tells me how much it adorns a villa of her uncle ...
... leaves , while the heavy shower has pat- tered above , and not a rain drop reached me ! How often I have sat with a ... leave of the avenue ; Madame Quesnel is partial to the poplar , and tells me how much it adorns a villa of her uncle ...
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... leaves , And checquers all the ground , and guides them to the bow'r , The long haunted bow'r , where the nightingale ... leave him , till the stars are all burnt out , While , in strange - looking shapes , they frisk about the ground ...
... leaves , And checquers all the ground , and guides them to the bow'r , The long haunted bow'r , where the nightingale ... leave him , till the stars are all burnt out , While , in strange - looking shapes , they frisk about the ground ...
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... leave of M. Barreaux , whom he found botanizing in the wood near his chateau , and who , when he was told the purpose of St. Aubert's visit , expressed a degree of concern , such as his friend had thought it was scarcely possible for ...
... leave of M. Barreaux , whom he found botanizing in the wood near his chateau , and who , when he was told the purpose of St. Aubert's visit , expressed a degree of concern , such as his friend had thought it was scarcely possible for ...
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... , part at the distance of about a league and a half from hence ; if you will give me leave , I will direct your muleteer so far . I must wander some- where , and your company would make this a pleasanter 34 Ann Radcliffe.
... , part at the distance of about a league and a half from hence ; if you will give me leave , I will direct your muleteer so far . I must wander some- where , and your company would make this a pleasanter 34 Ann Radcliffe.
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... leave of him than is usual after so short an acquaintance . Valancourt talked long by the side of the car- riage ; seemed more than once to be going , but still lingered , and appeared to search anxiously for topics of conversation to ...
... leave of him than is usual after so short an acquaintance . Valancourt talked long by the side of the car- riage ; seemed more than once to be going , but still lingered , and appeared to search anxiously for topics of conversation to ...
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