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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... sunk into a reverie , and they walked on in silence . A faint erroneous ray Glanc'd from th ' imperfect surfaces of things , Flung half an image on the straining eye ; While waving woods , and villages , and streams , And rocks , and ...
... sunk into a reverie , and they walked on in silence . A faint erroneous ray Glanc'd from th ' imperfect surfaces of things , Flung half an image on the straining eye ; While waving woods , and villages , and streams , And rocks , and ...
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... sunk at once under the pressure of her sorrow , and then perceived that it was hope , as well as fortitude , which had hitherto supported her . St. Aubert was for a time too devoid of comfort himself to bestow any on his daughter ...
... sunk at once under the pressure of her sorrow , and then perceived that it was hope , as well as fortitude , which had hitherto supported her . St. Aubert was for a time too devoid of comfort himself to bestow any on his daughter ...
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... sunk into habit , weighs down the elastic- ity of the 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 ...
... sunk into habit , weighs down the elastic- ity of the 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 ...
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... 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 , gradually yielded to delightful impressions . The road now descended into ...
... 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 , gradually yielded to delightful impressions . The road now descended into ...
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... sunk in that thoughtful melancholy , with which twilight and solitude impress the mind . Michael had now ended his ditty , and nothing was heard but the drowsy murmur of the breeze among the woods , and its light flutter , as it blew ...
... sunk in that thoughtful melancholy , with which twilight and solitude impress the mind . Michael had now ended his ditty , and nothing was heard but the drowsy murmur of the breeze among the woods , and its light flutter , as it blew ...
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