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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... present there is not accommodation for a third part of my own people . " " It accommodated our father's household , " said St. Aubert , grieved that the old mansion was to be thus improved , " and that was not a small one . " " Our ...
... present there is not accommodation for a third part of my own people . " " It accommodated our father's household , " said St. Aubert , grieved that the old mansion was to be thus improved , " and that was not a small one . " " Our ...
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... present owner . St. Aubert followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour , where sat Mons . and Madame Quesnel , who received him with a stately polite- ness , and , after a few formal words of condolement , seemed to have for- gotten ...
... present owner . St. Aubert followed a gay Parisian servant to a parlour , where sat Mons . and Madame Quesnel , who received him with a stately polite- ness , and , after a few formal words of condolement , seemed to have for- gotten ...
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... present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy , which gives to every object a mellower tint , and breathes a sacred charm over all around . They had provided against part of the evil to be ...
... present God ! Still the enjoyment of St. Aubert was touched with that pensive melancholy , which gives to every object a mellower tint , and breathes a sacred charm over all around . They had provided against part of the evil to be ...
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... present landscape , while they knew that her eyes must 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 ...
... present landscape , while they knew that her eyes must 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 ...
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... present auditors had ever heard , and St. Aubert at length discovered it to be a vesper - hymn to his favourite saint . They travelled on , sunk in that thoughtful melancholy , with which twilight and solitude impress the mind . Michael ...
... present auditors had ever heard , and St. Aubert at length discovered it to be a vesper - hymn to his favourite saint . They travelled on , sunk in that thoughtful melancholy , with which twilight and solitude impress the mind . Michael ...
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