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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... shade he had first indulged that pensive melancholy , which afterwards made a strong feature of his character - the wild walks of the mountains , the river , on whose waves he had floated , and the distant plains , which seemed ...
... shade he had first indulged that pensive melancholy , which afterwards made a strong feature of his character - the wild walks of the mountains , the river , on whose waves he had floated , and the distant plains , which seemed ...
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... shade of the lofty larch , or cedar , they enjoyed their simple repast , made sweeter by the waters of the cool stream , that crept along the turf , and by the breath of wild flowers and aromatic plants , that fringed the rocks , and ...
... shade of the lofty larch , or cedar , they enjoyed their simple repast , made sweeter by the waters of the cool stream , that crept along the turf , and by the breath of wild flowers and aromatic plants , that fringed the rocks , and ...
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... shade of a plane - tree , that spread its majestic canopy towards the river , St. Aubert loved to sit in the fine evenings of summer , with his wife and children , watching , beneath its foliage , the setting - sun , the mild splendour ...
... shade of a plane - tree , that spread its majestic canopy towards the river , St. Aubert loved to sit in the fine evenings of summer , with his wife and children , watching , beneath its foliage , the setting - sun , the mild splendour ...
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... shades it reflected . Above the woods , that screened this glen , rose the lofty summits of the Pyrenées , which often burst boldly on the eye through the glades below . Sometimes the shattered face of a rock only was seen , crowned ...
... shades it reflected . Above the woods , that screened this glen , rose the lofty summits of the Pyrenées , which often burst boldly on the eye through the glades below . Sometimes the shattered face of a rock only was seen , crowned ...
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... shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her acquain- tance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could be addressed , she was compelled to rest in uncertainty ; an uncertainty which would have been more ...
... shades . Having glanced round the little circle of her acquain- tance without being detained by a suspicion as to whom they could be addressed , she was compelled to rest in uncertainty ; an uncertainty which would have been more ...
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