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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... woods and vines , and plantations of olives . To the south , the view was bounded by the majes- tic Pyrenées , whose summits , veiled in clouds , or exhibiting awful forms , seen , and lost again , as the partial vapours rolled along ...
... woods and vines , and plantations of olives . To the south , the view was bounded by the majes- tic Pyrenées , whose summits , veiled in clouds , or exhibiting awful forms , seen , and lost again , as the partial vapours rolled along ...
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... woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on the twilight ; the cottage - lights , now seen , and now lost - were circum- stances that awakened her mind into effort , and led to enthusiasm ...
... woods ; the trembling of their leaves , at intervals , in the breeze ; the bat , flitting on the twilight ; the cottage - lights , now seen , and now lost - were circum- stances that awakened her mind into effort , and led to enthusiasm ...
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... woods and pastures ; the flowery turf ; the blue concave of the heavens ; the balmy air ; the mur- mur of the limpid ... wood - walks of this romantic glen , and conversed with him , and with her daughter , she often looked at them ...
... woods and pastures ; the flowery turf ; the blue concave of the heavens ; the balmy air ; the mur- mur of the limpid ... wood - walks of this romantic glen , and conversed with him , and with her daughter , she often looked at them ...
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... woods , where At fall of eve the fairy - people throng , In various games and revelry to pass The summer night , as village stories tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now ...
... woods , where At fall of eve the fairy - people throng , In various games and revelry to pass The summer night , as village stories tell . * " The evening gloom of woods was always delightful to me , ” said St. Aubert , whose mind now ...
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... wood's deep - matted shade On a mid - summer's eve , when the fresh rain is o'er ; When the yellow beams slope ... woods , they raise a dismal shout , Till I shrink into my cell again for terror of the sound ! But , see where all ...
... wood's deep - matted shade On a mid - summer's eve , when the fresh rain is o'er ; When the yellow beams slope ... woods , they raise a dismal shout , Till I shrink into my cell again for terror of the sound ! But , see where all ...
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