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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... remember that in my youth this gloom used to call forth to my fancy a thousand fairy visions , and romantic images ; and , I own , I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm , which wakes the poet's dream : I can linger ...
... remember that in my youth this gloom used to call forth to my fancy a thousand fairy visions , and romantic images ; and , I own , I am not yet wholly insensible of that high enthusiasm , which wakes the poet's dream : I can linger ...
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... remember when I was about his age , " resumed St. Aubert , “ and I thought , and felt exactly as he does . The world was opening upon me then , now - it is closing . " " My dear sir , do not think so gloomily 54 Ann Radcliffe.
... remember when I was about his age , " resumed St. Aubert , “ and I thought , and felt exactly as he does . The world was opening upon me then , now - it is closing . " " My dear sir , do not think so gloomily 54 Ann Radcliffe.
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... remember her . " " Yes " said St. Aubert , " and I am one of those . " “ Alas , sir ! you remember , then , a most beautiful and excellent lady . She deserved a better fate . " Tears stood in St. Aubert's eyes ; “ Enough , ” said he ...
... remember her . " " Yes " said St. Aubert , " and I am one of those . " “ Alas , sir ! you remember , then , a most beautiful and excellent lady . She deserved a better fate . " Tears stood in St. Aubert's eyes ; “ Enough , ” said he ...
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... remember it was on a fine summer's night , much like this , but later , that I was walking in the woods , and alone . I remember , too , that my spirits were very low , for one of my boys was ill , and we feared we should lose him ...
... remember it was on a fine summer's night , much like this , but later , that I was walking in the woods , and alone . I remember , too , that my spirits were very low , for one of my boys was ill , and we feared we should lose him ...
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... remember how much more valuable is the strength of fortitude , than the grace of sensibility . Do not , however , confound fortitude with apathy ; apathy cannot know the virtue . Remember , too , that one act of beneficence , one act ...
... remember how much more valuable is the strength of fortitude , than the grace of sensibility . Do not , however , confound fortitude with apathy ; apathy cannot know the virtue . Remember , too , that one act of beneficence , one act ...
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