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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... mind , warm affections , and ready benevolence ; but with these was observable a degree of susceptibility too exquisite to admit of lasting peace . As she advanced in youth , this sensibility gave a pensive tone to her spirits , and a ...
... mind , warm affections , and ready benevolence ; but with these was observable a degree of susceptibility too exquisite to admit of lasting peace . As she advanced in youth , this sensibility gave a pensive tone to her spirits , and a ...
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... mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be the sun - shine of our lives . My dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts I have so often ...
... mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be the sun - shine of our lives . My dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts I have so often ...
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... mind , restore them to their proper tone . For some days Emily was occupied in preparations to attend him ; and he , by endeavours to diminish his expences at home during the journey - a purpose which determined him at length to dismiss ...
... mind , restore them to their proper tone . For some days Emily was occupied in preparations to attend him ; and he , by endeavours to diminish his expences at home during the journey - a purpose which determined him at length to dismiss ...
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... mind ; and when he spoke again , there was a peculiar tenderness in the tone of his voice , that defeated any ... minds . They had no words to express the sublime emotions they felt . A solemn expression characterized the feelings ...
... mind ; and when he spoke again , there was a peculiar tenderness in the tone of his voice , that defeated any ... minds . They had no words to express the sublime emotions they felt . A solemn expression characterized the feelings ...
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... mind , till she fell asleep . In about two hours after , she was awakened by the chiming of a bell , and then heard quick steps pass along the gallery , into which her cham- ber opened . She was so little accustomed to the manners of a ...
... mind , till she fell asleep . In about two hours after , she was awakened by the chiming of a bell , and then heard quick steps pass along the gallery , into which her cham- ber opened . She was so little accustomed to the manners of a ...
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