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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... Thought , and cultivation , are necessary equally to the happi- ness of a country and a city life ; in the first ... thoughts to the GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH . In scenes like these she would often linger alone , wrapt in a ...
... Thought , and cultivation , are necessary equally to the happi- ness of a country and a city life ; in the first ... thoughts to the GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH . In scenes like these she would often linger alone , wrapt in a ...
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... thoughts amid her books , her studies , and the exercise of social charities . Soon after this period , her anxiety was awakened by the indisposition of her father , who was attacked with a fever ; which , though not thought to be of a ...
... thoughts amid her books , her studies , and the exercise of social charities . Soon after this period , her anxiety was awakened by the indisposition of her father , who was attacked with a fever ; which , though not thought to be of a ...
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... thought she perceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same , and she did not hesitate to forego the last for the attainment of the former . Whether Monsieur Quesnel thought them the same , or not , he would readily have ...
... thought she perceived , that happiness and splendour were not the same , and she did not hesitate to forego the last for the attainment of the former . Whether Monsieur Quesnel thought them the same , or not , he would readily have ...
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... thought it was scarcely possible for him to feel on any similar occasion . They parted with mutual regret . " If any thing could have tempted me from my retirement , ” said M. Barreaux , " it would have been the pleasure of accompanying ...
... thought it was scarcely possible for him to feel on any similar occasion . They parted with mutual regret . " If any thing could have tempted me from my retirement , ” said M. Barreaux , " it would have been the pleasure of accompanying ...
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... thought how delighted she would have been with the present landscape , while they knew that her eyes must never , never more open upon this world . St. Aubert remembered the last time of his visiting that spot in company with her , and ...
... thought how delighted she would have been with the present landscape , while they knew that her eyes must never , never more open upon this world . St. Aubert remembered the last time of his visiting that spot in company with her , and ...
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