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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... spirits , and a softness to her manner , which added grace to beauty , and rendered her a very interesting object to persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had ...
... spirits , and a softness to her manner , which added grace to beauty , and rendered her a very interesting object to persons of a congenial disposition . But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ; and had ...
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... spirits so as to render conquest nearly impossible ; this is to come . You , my Emily , will shew that you are willing to avoid it . " Emily smiled through her tears upon her father : " Dear sir , ” said she , and her voice trembled ...
... spirits so as to render conquest nearly impossible ; this is to come . You , my Emily , will shew that you are willing to avoid it . " Emily smiled through her tears upon her father : " Dear sir , ” said she , and her voice trembled ...
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... spirits . Every fea- ture of the edifice , distinguished by an air of heavy grandeur , appeared successively between the branches of the trees - the broad turret , the arched gate - way that led into the courts , 22 Ann Radcliffe.
... spirits . Every fea- ture of the edifice , distinguished by an air of heavy grandeur , appeared successively between the branches of the trees - the broad turret , the arched gate - way that led into the courts , 22 Ann Radcliffe.
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... spirits been less oppressed . Of the guests , Signor Montoni was lately come from Italy , and he spoke of the commotions which at that period agitated the country ; talked of party differences with warmth , and then lamented the ...
... spirits been less oppressed . Of the guests , Signor Montoni was lately come from Italy , and he spoke of the commotions which at that period agitated the country ; talked of party differences with warmth , and then lamented the ...
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... spirits ( for the travelling smugglers , who haunted the Pyrenées , had made this rude people familiar with the use of liquors ) was gener- ally perceptible enough . Emily turned from such scenes , and looked at her father with anxious ...
... spirits ( for the travelling smugglers , who haunted the Pyrenées , had made this rude people familiar with the use of liquors ) was gener- ally perceptible enough . Emily turned from such scenes , and looked at her father with anxious ...
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