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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... melancholy . The first interruptions to the happiness he had known since his retirement , were occasioned by the death of his two sons . He lost them at that age when infantine simplicity is so fascinating ; and though , in ...
... melancholy . The first interruptions to the happiness he had known since his retirement , were occasioned by the death of his two sons . He lost them at that age when infantine simplicity is so fascinating ; and though , in ...
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... melancholy charm , till the last gleam of day faded from the west ; till the lonely sound of a sheep - bell , or the distant bark of a watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ...
... melancholy charm , till the last gleam of day faded from the west ; till the lonely sound of a sheep - bell , or the distant bark of a watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ...
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... melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron , his only surviving sister , who had been some years a widow , and now resided on her own estate near Tholouse . The inter- course between them had not been very ...
... melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron , his only surviving sister , who had been some years a widow , and now resided on her own estate near Tholouse . The inter- course between them had not been very ...
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... melancholy smile , that he felt himself much as usual ; but Emily's fears made her now fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . Emily would have been amused by the new characters she saw , and the varied conversation that ...
... melancholy smile , that he felt himself much as usual ; but Emily's fears made her now fancy that her father looked worse than he really did . Emily would have been amused by the new characters she saw , and the varied conversation that ...
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... melancholy imagina- tion suggested that he should return no more ; and though he checked this wandering thought , still he continued to look , till the haziness of distance blended his home with the general landscape , and St. Aubert ...
... melancholy imagina- tion suggested that he should return no more ; and though he checked this wandering thought , still he continued to look , till the haziness of distance blended his home with the general landscape , and St. Aubert ...
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