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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... occasioned by the death of his two sons . He lost them at that age when infantine simplicity is so fascinating ; and though , in consideration of Madame St. Aubert's distress , he restrained the expres- sion of his own , and endeavoured ...
... occasioned by the death of his two sons . He lost them at that age when infantine simplicity is so fascinating ; and though , in consideration of Madame St. Aubert's distress , he restrained the expres- sion of his own , and endeavoured ...
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... occasioned her . In person , Emily resembled her mother ; having the same elegant symmetry of form , the same delicacy of features , and the same blue eyes , full of tender sweetness . But , lovely as was her person , it was the varied ...
... occasioned her . In person , Emily resembled her mother ; having the same elegant symmetry of form , the same delicacy of features , and the same blue eyes , full of tender sweetness . But , lovely as was her person , it was the varied ...
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... occasioned the heavy languor of which she had complained . St. Aubert , whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other consideration , detained the physician in his house . He remem- bered the feelings and the reflections that had ...
... occasioned the heavy languor of which she had complained . St. Aubert , whose anxiety for his wife overcame every other consideration , detained the physician in his house . He remem- bered the feelings and the reflections that had ...
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... occasioned her indisposition , he assured her , in a voice that trembled , but not from anguish , that his wound was of no consequence . While he said this St. Aubert turned round , and perceiving that he was still bleeding , the ...
... occasioned her indisposition , he assured her , in a voice that trembled , but not from anguish , that his wound was of no consequence . While he said this St. Aubert turned round , and perceiving that he was still bleeding , the ...
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... from the remembrance that had occasioned it , as well as shocked at his own thoughtlessness , he began to speak on other subjects , expressing his admiration of the chateau , and its prospects . Emily , who felt 98 Ann Radcliffe.
... from the remembrance that had occasioned it , as well as shocked at his own thoughtlessness , he began to speak on other subjects , expressing his admiration of the chateau , and its prospects . Emily , who felt 98 Ann Radcliffe.
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