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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... waves . He had known life in other forms than those of pastoral sim- plicity , having mingled in the gay and in the busy scenes of the world ; but the flattering portrait of mankind , which his heart had delineated in early youth , his ...
... waves . He had known life in other forms than those of pastoral sim- plicity , having mingled in the gay and in the busy scenes of the world ; but the flattering portrait of mankind , which his heart had delineated in early youth , his ...
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... waves he had floated , and the distant plains , which seemed boundless as his early hopes - were never after remembered by St. Aubert but with enthusiasm and regret . At length he disengaged him- self from the world , and retired hither ...
... waves he had floated , and the distant plains , which seemed boundless as his early hopes - were never after remembered by St. Aubert but with enthusiasm and regret . At length he disengaged him- self from the world , and retired hither ...
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... waves , over which they trembled . It was in one of her excursions to this spot , that she observed the fol- lowing lines written with a pencil on a part of the wainscot : SONNET Go , pencil ! faithful to thy master's sighs 8 Ann Radcliffe.
... waves , over which they trembled . It was in one of her excursions to this spot , that she observed the fol- lowing lines written with a pencil on a part of the wainscot : SONNET Go , pencil ! faithful to thy master's sighs 8 Ann Radcliffe.
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... wave her fairy wand , And to me the dance will cease , and the music all be mute . O ! had I but that purple flow'r whose leaves her charms can foil , And knew like fays to draw the juice , and throw it on the wind , I'd be her slave no ...
... wave her fairy wand , And to me the dance will cease , and the music all be mute . O ! had I but that purple flow'r whose leaves her charms can foil , And knew like fays to draw the juice , and throw it on the wind , I'd be her slave no ...
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... waves towards the Bay of Biscay . The ruggedness of the unfrequented road often obliged the wander- ers to alight from their little carriage , but they thought themselves amply repaid for this inconvenience by the grandeur of the scenes ...
... waves towards the Bay of Biscay . The ruggedness of the unfrequented road often obliged the wander- ers to alight from their little carriage , but they thought themselves amply repaid for this inconvenience by the grandeur of the scenes ...
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