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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... tenderness , and often elevates it to sublime contemplation . When the moon shed her soft rays among the foliage , he still lingered , and his pastoral supper of cream and fruits was often spread beneath it . Then , on the stillness of ...
... tenderness , and often elevates it to sublime contemplation . When the moon shed her soft rays among the foliage , he still lingered , and his pastoral supper of cream and fruits was often spread beneath it . Then , on the stillness of ...
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... tenderness , that filled her eyes with tears . St. Aubert observed this more than once , and gent- ly reproved her for the emotion ; but she could only smile , clasp his hand , and that of Emily , and weep the more . He felt the tender ...
... tenderness , that filled her eyes with tears . St. Aubert observed this more than once , and gent- ly reproved her for the emotion ; but she could only smile , clasp his hand , and that of Emily , and weep the more . He felt the tender ...
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... tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them , and that seemed to say , it was for their sakes only , for their suf- ferings , that she regretted life . On the seventh day , the disorder was at its crisis . The ...
... tenderness , as if she anticipated the sorrow that awaited them , and that seemed to say , it was for their sakes only , for their suf- ferings , that she regretted life . On the seventh day , the disorder was at its crisis . The ...
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... tenderness which the feeling heart cherishes as sacred . St. Aubert , on the contrary , visibly declined in health ; though Emily , who had been so constantly with him , was almost the last person who observed it . His constitution had ...
... tenderness which the feeling heart cherishes as sacred . St. Aubert , on the contrary , visibly declined in health ; though Emily , who had been so constantly with him , was almost the last person who observed it . His constitution had ...
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... tenderness . She could not witness his sorrow , without being anxious to know the sub- ject of it ; and she therefore continued to observe him in silence , con- cluding that those papers were letters of her late mother . Presently he ...
... tenderness . She could not witness his sorrow , without being anxious to know the sub- ject of it ; and she therefore continued to observe him in silence , con- cluding that those papers were letters of her late mother . Presently he ...
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