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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... tell the Goddess of the fairy scene , When next her light steps wind these wood - walks green , Whence all his tears , his tender sorrows , rise ; Ah ! paint her form , her soul - illumin'd eyes , The sweet expression of her pensive ...
... tell the Goddess of the fairy scene , When next her light steps wind these wood - walks green , Whence all his tears , his tender sorrows , rise ; Ah ! paint her form , her soul - illumin'd eyes , The sweet expression of her pensive ...
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... tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now experienced the sweet calm , which results from the consciousness of having done a beneficent action , and which disposes it to ...
... tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now experienced the sweet calm , which results from the consciousness of having done a beneficent action , and which disposes it to ...
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... tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left the shepherd and his cabin far behind , and the scene became so obscured in twilight , that the eye ...
... tell ; and Emily began to fear that he had mis- taken the road . Here was no human being to assist , or direct them ; they had left the shepherd and his cabin far behind , and the scene became so obscured in twilight , that the eye ...
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... tell the traveller the fate of him who had ventured thither before . This spot seemed the very haunt of banditti ; and Emily , as she looked down upon it , almost expected to see them stealing out from some hollow cave to look for their ...
... tell the traveller the fate of him who had ventured thither before . This spot seemed the very haunt of banditti ; and Emily , as she looked down upon it , almost expected to see them stealing out from some hollow cave to look for their ...
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... tell you . The closet , which adjoins my chamber at La Vallée , has a sliding board in the floor . You will know it by a remarkable knot in the wood , and by its being the next board , except one , to the wainscot , which fronts the ...
... tell you . The closet , which adjoins my chamber at La Vallée , has a sliding board in the floor . You will know it by a remarkable knot in the wood , and by its being the next board , except one , to the wainscot , which fronts the ...
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