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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... sound of a sheep - bell , or the distant bark of a watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on ...
... sound of a sheep - bell , or the distant bark of a watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on ...
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... sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still , and no person appeared . She continued to listen , till timidity succeeded to surprise ...
... sound of her steps should occasion her to lose a note of the music , or should disturb the musician . Every thing without the building was still , and no person appeared . She continued to listen , till timidity succeeded to surprise ...
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... sound of a step without the building , and again alarmed , she caught up her lute , and hurried away . Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert she found in a little path that wound along the sides of the glen . Having reached a green summit ...
... sound of a step without the building , and again alarmed , she caught up her lute , and hurried away . Monsieur and Madame St. Aubert she found in a little path that wound along the sides of the glen . Having reached a green summit ...
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... sound of voices was distinctly heard , servants and horses were seen pass- ing between the trees , and , at length , the wheels of a carriage rolled along . Having come within view of the front of the chateau , a landau , with smoking ...
... sound of voices was distinctly heard , servants and horses were seen pass- ing between the trees , and , at length , the wheels of a carriage rolled along . Having come within view of the front of the chateau , a landau , with smoking ...
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... sound over the wood - tops ; -now it dies away ; -how solemn the stillness that succeeds ! Now the breeze swells again . It is like the voice of some supernatural being - the voice of the spirit of the woods , that watches over them by ...
... sound over the wood - tops ; -now it dies away ; -how solemn the stillness that succeeds ! Now the breeze swells again . It is like the voice of some supernatural being - the voice of the spirit of the woods , that watches over them by ...
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