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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... grief would occasion his wife , enabled him , after some time , to command himself in her presence . Emily was at first overwhelmed with the intelligence ; then , deluded by the strength of her wishes , a hope sprung up in her mind that ...
... grief would occasion his wife , enabled him , after some time , to command himself in her presence . Emily was at first overwhelmed with the intelligence ; then , deluded by the strength of her wishes , a hope sprung up in her mind that ...
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... grief . Never had Emily felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she ...
... grief . Never had Emily felt the importance of the lessons , which had taught her to restrain her sensibility , so much as in these moments , and never had she practised them with a triumph so complete . But when the last was over , she ...
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... grief enervates the mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be the sun - shine of our lives . My dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts ...
... grief enervates the mind , and almost incapacitates it for again partaking of those vari- ous innocent enjoyments which a benevolent God designed to be the sun - shine of our lives . My dear Emily , recollect and practise the pre- cepts ...
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... grief ; but the minute attention he gave them , and the modulated voice , and softened look that accompanied it , came from his heart , and spoke to theirs . At this melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron ...
... grief ; but the minute attention he gave them , and the modulated voice , and softened look that accompanied it , came from his heart , and spoke to theirs . At this melancholy period , St. Aubert was likewise visited by Madame Cheron ...
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... times , nor suspected that he had a cause of grief which he concealed from her . On entering the chateau she felt more depressed than ever , for she more than ever missed the presence of that dear parent 24 Ann Radcliffe.
... times , nor suspected that he had a cause of grief which he concealed from her . On entering the chateau she felt more depressed than ever , for she more than ever missed the presence of that dear parent 24 Ann Radcliffe.
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