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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... passed ; and Emily , having answered , walked on to the east rampart , at the entrance of which they were again stopped ; and , having again replied , were permitted to proceed . But Emily did not like to expose herself to the ...
... passed ; and Emily , having answered , walked on to the east rampart , at the entrance of which they were again stopped ; and , having again replied , were permitted to proceed . But Emily did not like to expose herself to the ...
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... passed the day in the pursuit of his favourite science . He was sometimes accompanied in these little excursions by Madame St. Aubert , and frequently by his daughter ; when , with a small osier basket to receive plants , and another ...
... passed the day in the pursuit of his favourite science . He was sometimes accompanied in these little excursions by Madame St. Aubert , and frequently by his daughter ; when , with a small osier basket to receive plants , and another ...
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... passed away , and each , as it passed , stole something from the harshness of her affliction , till it was mellowed to that tenderness which the feeling heart cherishes as sacred . St. Aubert , on the contrary , visibly declined in ...
... passed away , and each , as it passed , stole something from the harshness of her affliction , till it was mellowed to that tenderness which the feeling heart cherishes as sacred . St. Aubert , on the contrary , visibly declined in ...
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... passed the place , however , without being attacked ; the rovers being probably unprepared for the opportunity , and too busy about their supper to feel much interest , at the moment , in any thing besides . After a league and a half ...
... passed the place , however , without being attacked ; the rovers being probably unprepared for the opportunity , and too busy about their supper to feel much interest , at the moment , in any thing besides . After a league and a half ...
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... 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 plan to pro- ceed , on the morrow , to the borders of the Mediterranean ...
... 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 plan to pro- ceed , on the morrow , to the borders of the Mediterranean ...
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