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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... never failed , had not been obliterated by succeeding circumstances . The green pastures along which he had so often bounded in the exultation of health , and youthful freedom - the woods , under whose refreshing shade he had first ...
... never failed , had not been obliterated by succeeding circumstances . The green pastures along which he had so often bounded in the exultation of health , and youthful freedom - the woods , under whose refreshing shade he had first ...
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... never could find amusement in torturing or destroying . After employing himself , for about an hour , in botanizing , dinner was served . It was a repast , to which gratitude , for being again permit- ted to visit this spot , gave ...
... never could find amusement in torturing or destroying . After employing himself , for about an hour , in botanizing , dinner was served . It was a repast , to which gratitude , for being again permit- ted to visit this spot , gave ...
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... never been strengthened by congeniality of character , the intercourse between them had not been frequent . M. Quesnel had lived altogether in the world ; his aim had been consequence ; splendour was the object of his taste ; and his ...
... never been strengthened by congeniality of character , the intercourse between them had not been frequent . M. Quesnel had lived altogether in the world ; his aim had been consequence ; splendour was the object of his taste ; and his ...
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... Never had Emily felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she sunk at ...
... Never had Emily felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she sunk at ...
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... never , never more open upon this world . St. Aubert remembered the last time of his visiting that spot in company with her , and also the mournfully presag- ing thoughts which had then arisen in his mind , and were now , even thus soon ...
... never , never more open upon this world . St. Aubert remembered the last time of his visiting that spot in company with her , and also the mournfully presag- ing thoughts which had then arisen in his mind , and were now , even thus soon ...
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