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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... watch for relief , and ready to plunge into error , to escape from the languor of idleness . Store it with ideas , teach it the pleasure of thinking ; and the temptations of the world without , will be counteracted by the gratifications ...
... watch for relief , and ready to plunge into error , to escape from the languor of idleness . Store it with ideas , teach it the pleasure of thinking ; and the temptations of the world without , will be counteracted by the gratifications ...
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... watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on the twilight ; the cottage - lights , now seen ...
... watch - dog , were all that broke on the stillness of the evening . Then , the gloom of the woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on the twilight ; the cottage - lights , now seen ...
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... watches over them by night . Ah ! what light is yonder ? But it is gone . And now it gleams again , near the root of that large chestnut : look , sir ! " " Are you such an admirer of nature , " said St. Aubert , “ and so little ...
... watches over them by night . Ah ! what light is yonder ? But it is gone . And now it gleams again , near the root of that large chestnut : look , sir ! " " Are you such an admirer of nature , " said St. Aubert , “ and so little ...
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... watch their various effect on the lower world , whose features , partly veiled , were continually assuming new forms of sublimity . After traversing these regions for many leagues , they began to descend towards Rousillon , and features ...
... watch their various effect on the lower world , whose features , partly veiled , were continually assuming new forms of sublimity . After traversing these regions for many leagues , they began to descend towards Rousillon , and features ...
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... watch over the flocks he led to feed upon these mountains , had lost , on the preceding night , his little all . A gang of gipsies , who had for some time infested the neighbourhood , had driven away several of his master's sheep ...
... watch over the flocks he led to feed upon these mountains , had lost , on the preceding night , his little all . A gang of gipsies , who had for some time infested the neighbourhood , had driven away several of his master's sheep ...
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