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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... declivity , that fell towards the river , and the tall trees gave it a melan- choly and pleasing shade ; while from the windows the eye caught , beneath the spreading branches , the gay and luxuriant landscape 4 Ann Radcliffe.
... declivity , that fell towards the river , and the tall trees gave it a melan- choly and pleasing shade ; while from the windows the eye caught , beneath the spreading branches , the gay and luxuriant landscape 4 Ann Radcliffe.
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... melan- choly shade was now so congenial with the tone of his spirits . Every fea- ture of the edifice , distinguished by an air of heavy grandeur , appeared successively between the branches of the trees - the broad turret , the arched ...
... melan- choly shade was now so congenial with the tone of his spirits . Every fea- ture of the edifice , distinguished by an air of heavy grandeur , appeared successively between the branches of the trees - the broad turret , the arched ...
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... melan- choly fancy , slightly tinctured with superstition , gave to the monastic scene , began to fade , as her spirits revived , and brought once more to her heart an image , which had only transiently been banished thence . By this ...
... melan- choly fancy , slightly tinctured with superstition , gave to the monastic scene , began to fade , as her spirits revived , and brought once more to her heart an image , which had only transiently been banished thence . By this ...
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... melan- choly expression , which came from her heart . The pensive hour and the scene , the evening light on the Garonne , that flowed at no great dis- tance , and whose waves , as they passed towards La Vallée , she often viewed with a ...
... melan- choly expression , which came from her heart . The pensive hour and the scene , the evening light on the Garonne , that flowed at no great dis- tance , and whose waves , as they passed towards La Vallée , she often viewed with a ...
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... melan- choly kind of pleasure , and her emotion may be imagined when , as she stood with her aunt , looking at one of the groups , she perceived Valancourt ; saw him dancing with a young and beautiful lady , saw him conversing with her ...
... melan- choly kind of pleasure , and her emotion may be imagined when , as she stood with her aunt , looking at one of the groups , she perceived Valancourt ; saw him dancing with a young and beautiful lady , saw him conversing with her ...
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