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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... seemed scarcely accessible but to the steps of the enthusiast , and where no track appeared on the vegetation , but what the foot of the izard had left ; they would seek one of those green recesses , which so beautifully adorn the bosom ...
... seemed scarcely accessible but to the steps of the enthusiast , and where no track appeared on the vegetation , but what the foot of the izard had left ; they would seek one of those green recesses , which so beautifully adorn the bosom ...
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... 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 mind , which had ever appeared in ...
... 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 mind , which had ever appeared in ...
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... seemed to have formed a more decided one ; but her eyes only gave hints of this . She frequently fixed them upon her anxious friends with an expression of pity , and of tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them ...
... seemed to have formed a more decided one ; but her eyes only gave hints of this . She frequently fixed them upon her anxious friends with an expression of pity , and of tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them ...
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... seemed to Drag at each remove a lengthening chain . He and Emily continued sunk in musing silence for some leagues , from which melancholy reverie Emily first awoke , and her young fancy , struck with the grandeur of the objects around ...
... seemed to Drag at each remove a lengthening chain . He and Emily continued sunk in musing silence for some leagues , from which melancholy reverie Emily first awoke , and her young fancy , struck with the grandeur of the objects around ...
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... seemed equally to prevail ; and the owners eyed St. Aubert with a mixture of curiosity and timidity . Nothing like a bed could be found , and he had ceased to enquire for one , when Emily joined him , who observed the languor of her ...
... seemed equally to prevail ; and the owners eyed St. Aubert with a mixture of curiosity and timidity . Nothing like a bed could be found , and he had ceased to enquire for one , when Emily joined him , who observed the languor of her ...
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