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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... listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still , and no person ...
... listened in profound silence , afraid to move from the spot , lest the sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still , and no person ...
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... listened , with a degree of patience and attention , which his guest mistook for the humility of wonder . The latter , indeed , described the few festivities which the tur- bulence of that period permitted to the court of Henry the ...
... listened , with a degree of patience and attention , which his guest mistook for the humility of wonder . The latter , indeed , described the few festivities which the tur- bulence of that period permitted to the court of Henry the ...
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... listened to what she said in silence , and then turned the discourse upon another subject . At parting she pressed him and her niece to make her an early visit . " Change of place will amuse you , " said she , " and it is wrong to give ...
... listened to what she said in silence , and then turned the discourse upon another subject . At parting she pressed him and her niece to make her an early visit . " Change of place will amuse you , " said she , " and it is wrong to give ...
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... the car- riage . They were at length roused by the sound of fire - arms . St. Aubert called to the muleteer to stop , and they listened . The noise was not repeated ; but presently they heard a rustling among the 30 Ann Radcliffe.
... the car- riage . They were at length roused by the sound of fire - arms . St. Aubert called to the muleteer to stop , and they listened . The noise was not repeated ; but presently they heard a rustling among the 30 Ann Radcliffe.
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... ; except when the travellers listened to the hollow thunder that sometimes mut- tered at their feet . While , above , the deep blue of the heavens was unobscured by the lightest cloud , half way down the The Mysteries of Udolpho 41.
... ; except when the travellers listened to the hollow thunder that sometimes mut- tered at their feet . While , above , the deep blue of the heavens was unobscured by the lightest cloud , half way down the The Mysteries of Udolpho 41.
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