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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... persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had ... person , it was the varied expression of her countenance , as conversation awakened the nicer emotions of her mind ...
... persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had ... person , it was the varied expression of her countenance , as conversation awakened the nicer emotions of her mind ...
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... person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubtedly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her acquain- tance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could ...
... person ; Emily therefore could not apply them to herself , though she was undoubtedly the nymph of these shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her acquain- tance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could ...
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... person who came to condole with St. Aubert was a M. Barreaux , an austere and seemingly unfeeling man . A taste for botany had introduced them to each other , for they had frequently met in their wanderings among the mountains . M ...
... person who came to condole with St. Aubert was a M. Barreaux , an austere and seemingly unfeeling man . A taste for botany had introduced them to each other , for they had frequently met in their wanderings among the mountains . M ...
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... persons who now showed so little sense of decorum . Among the visitors assembled at dinner were two Italian gentlemen , of ... person , with features manly and expressive , but whose countenance exhibited , upon the whole , more of the ...
... persons who now showed so little sense of decorum . Among the visitors assembled at dinner were two Italian gentlemen , of ... person , with features manly and expressive , but whose countenance exhibited , upon the whole , more of the ...
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... person , on so short an acquaintance . He brings back to my memory the days of my youth , when every scene was new and delightful ! " St. Aubert sighed , and sunk again into a reverie ; and , as Emily looked back upon the road they had ...
... person , on so short an acquaintance . He brings back to my memory the days of my youth , when every scene was new and delightful ! " St. Aubert sighed , and sunk again into a reverie ; and , as Emily looked back upon the road they had ...
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