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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... night , as village stories tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now experienced the sweet calm , which results from the consciousness of having done a beneficent action , and ...
... night , as village stories tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now experienced the sweet calm , which results from the consciousness of having done a beneficent action , and ...
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... night , in a cottage on the skirts of the woods , returned to sup with his friends , on such sober fare as the monks thought it prudent to set before them . While St. Aubert was too much indisposed to share it , Emily , in her anxiety ...
... night , in a cottage on the skirts of the woods , returned to sup with his friends , on such sober fare as the monks thought it prudent to set before them . While St. Aubert was too much indisposed to share it , Emily , in her anxiety ...
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... night , the sky was unobscured by any cloud , and scarce a leaf of the woods beneath trembled in the air . As she listened , the mid - night hymn of the monks rose softly from a chapel , that stood on one of the lower cliffs , an holy ...
... night , the sky was unobscured by any cloud , and scarce a leaf of the woods beneath trembled in the air . As she listened , the mid - night hymn of the monks rose softly from a chapel , that stood on one of the lower cliffs , an holy ...
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... night . They met with simple , but neat accommodation , and would have passed a happy evening , after the toils and the delights of this day , had not the approaching separa- tion thrown a gloom over their spirits . It was St. Aubert's ...
... night . They met with simple , but neat accommodation , and would have passed a happy evening , after the toils and the delights of this day , had not the approaching separa- tion thrown a gloom over their spirits . It was St. Aubert's ...
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... night , but the place could not afford them beds ; for here , too , it was the time of the vintage , and they were obliged to proceed to the next post . The languor of illness and of fatigue , which returned upon St. Aubert , required ...
... night , but the place could not afford them beds ; for here , too , it was the time of the vintage , and they were obliged to proceed to the next post . The languor of illness and of fatigue , which returned upon St. Aubert , required ...
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