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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... returned to the supper - room , seemed much disturbed , and a shade of sorrow some- times fell upon his features that alarmed Madame St. Aubert . When they were alone she was tempted to enquire the occasion of it , but the delicacy of ...
... returned to the supper - room , seemed much disturbed , and a shade of sorrow some- times fell upon his features that alarmed Madame St. Aubert . When they were alone she was tempted to enquire the occasion of it , but the delicacy of ...
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... returned with increased effect . On the following day , symptoms of fever appeared , and St. Aubert , having sent for medical advice , learned , that her disorder was a fever of the same nature as that , from which he had lately ...
... returned with increased effect . On the following day , symptoms of fever appeared , and St. Aubert , having sent for medical advice , learned , that her disorder was a fever of the same nature as that , from which he had lately ...
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... returned , his countenance had recovered its usual seren- ity ; he took Emily's hand , pressed it affectionately , without speaking , and soon after called to the muleteer , who sat at a little distance , con- cerning a road among the ...
... returned , his countenance had recovered its usual seren- ity ; he took Emily's hand , pressed it affectionately , without speaking , and soon after called to the muleteer , who sat at a little distance , con- cerning a road among the ...
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... returned his thanks , and said , that , as the village was so near , he would alight , and walk with him . Emily followed slowly in the carriage . On the way , St. Aubert asked his companion what The Mysteries of Udolpho 31.
... returned his thanks , and said , that , as the village was so near , he would alight , and walk with him . Emily followed slowly in the carriage . On the way , St. Aubert asked his companion what The Mysteries of Udolpho 31.
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... returned the salute , and started away . The aspect of the country now began to change , and the travellers soon found themselves among mountains covered from their base nearly to their summits with forests of gloomy pine , except where ...
... returned the salute , and started away . The aspect of the country now began to change , and the travellers soon found themselves among mountains covered from their base nearly to their summits with forests of gloomy pine , except where ...
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