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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... suffered the charms of Nature's lowly children to abstract them from the obser- vance of her stupendous works . When weary of sauntering among cliffs that seemed scarcely accessible but to the steps of the enthusiast , and where no ...
... suffered the charms of Nature's lowly children to abstract them from the obser- vance of her stupendous works . When weary of sauntering among cliffs that seemed scarcely accessible but to the steps of the enthusiast , and where no ...
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... suffered to doubt that they were addressed to her- self , she was as ignorant , as before , by whom they could be written . While she mused , she thought she heard the sound of a step without the building , and again alarmed , she ...
... suffered to doubt that they were addressed to her- self , she was as ignorant , as before , by whom they could be written . While she mused , she thought she heard the sound of a step without the building , and again alarmed , she ...
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... suffered her to weep without interruption , and then began to talk on common topics . The first person who came to condole with St. Aubert was a M. Barreaux , an austere and seemingly unfeeling man . A taste for botany had introduced ...
... suffered her to weep without interruption , and then began to talk on common topics . The first person who came to condole with St. Aubert was a M. Barreaux , an austere and seemingly unfeeling man . A taste for botany had introduced ...
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... suffered him to doubt . St. Aubert , who instantly alighted and went to his assistance , found him still sitting on his horse , but bleeding profusely , and appearing to be in great pain , though he endeavoured to soften the terror of ...
... suffered him to doubt . St. Aubert , who instantly alighted and went to his assistance , found him still sitting on his horse , but bleeding profusely , and appearing to be in great pain , though he endeavoured to soften the terror of ...
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... suffered on the preceding evening ; but , though scarcely able to support herself , under the sudden shock it gave her , she tried to conceal her apprehensions from St. Aubert , and gave her trembling arm to assist him to the door of ...
... suffered on the preceding evening ; but , though scarcely able to support herself , under the sudden shock it gave her , she tried to conceal her apprehensions from St. Aubert , and gave her trembling arm to assist him to the door of ...
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