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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... means of happiness . " A well - informed mind , " he would say , " is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice . The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief , and ready to plunge into error , to escape from the ...
... means of happiness . " A well - informed mind , " he would say , " is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice . The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief , and ready to plunge into error , to escape from the ...
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... mean to expend thirty or forty thousand livres on improvements , " said M. Quesnel , without seeming to notice the words of St. Aubert ; " for I design , next summer , to bring here my friends , the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis ...
... mean to expend thirty or forty thousand livres on improvements , " said M. Quesnel , without seeming to notice the words of St. Aubert ; " for I design , next summer , to bring here my friends , the Duke de Durefort and the Marquis ...
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... mean what we owe to our- selves , as well as to others . The indulgence of excessive grief enervates the mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be ...
... mean what we owe to our- selves , as well as to others . The indulgence of excessive grief enervates the mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be ...
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... means of knowing . St. Aubert thought it was probably kindled by some of the numerous banditti , that infested the Pyrenées , and he became watchful and anxious to know whether the road passed near this fire . He had arms with him ...
... means of knowing . St. Aubert thought it was probably kindled by some of the numerous banditti , that infested the Pyrenées , and he became watchful and anxious to know whether the road passed near this fire . He had arms with him ...
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... means of indulging it ; for the scenes of nature- those sublime spectacles , so infinitely superior to all artificial luxuries ! are open for the enjoyment of the poor , as well as of the rich . Of what , then , have we to complain , so ...
... means of indulging it ; for the scenes of nature- those sublime spectacles , so infinitely superior to all artificial luxuries ! are open for the enjoyment of the poor , as well as of the rich . Of what , then , have we to complain , so ...
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