To Which Is Prefixed A Memoir Of The Authoress, With Extracts From Her Private Journals. In Four Volumes.[...]
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a [...]
With its insightful portrayals of her protagonist's inner life, Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" was a hugely influential work of early Gothic horror. This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Jacqueline Howard. Emily St Aubert lives with her loving, enlig[...]
'Emily's face was stained with blood'. Beautiful young heiress Emily St. Aubert is frightened when she finds herself orphaned and in the hands of her cold and distant aunt, Madame Cheron. But her fear turns to terror when Madame Cheron agrees to marry the haughty and brooding Signor Montoni, and she[...]
A desolate castle hides a family's shameful secrets ...On the rocky northern shores of Sicily stands a lonely castle, the home of the aristocratic Mazzini family. The marquis of Mazzini has remarried and gone away to live with his new wife, abandoning his two daughters - sweet-natured Emilia and liv[...]
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily[...]
A beautifully crafted tale of gothic romance. Fresh with grief for her recently-deceased father and forced to live with an aunt who doesn't want her, Emily is plunged into a nightmarish world in this terrifying gothic classic by Ann Radcliffe. Having been forced apart from the man she loves, Emily f[...]
This book offers unique and fresh perspectives upon the literary productions of one of the most highly remunerated and widely admired authors of the Romantic period, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823). While drawing upon, consolidating and enriching the critical impulses reflected in Radcliffe scholarship to[...]
'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ...turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high[...]
Udolphos mysterier är ett klassiskt verk inom den gotiska litteraturen, som influerade både Marquis de Sade och E. A. Poe.
Med en drömlik och hallucinatorisk blick fångar Radcliffe sina karaktärers psykologiska tillstånd och låter oss moderna läsare få en kännedom om romantikens[...]
Udolphos mysterier är ett klassiskt verk inom den gotiska litteraturen, som influerade både Marquis de Sade och E. A. Poe.
Med en drömlik och hallucinatorisk blick fångar Radcliffe sina karaktärers psykologiska tillstånd och låter oss moderna läsare få en kännedom om romantikens[...]
The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its[...]
First published in 1797, The Italian's fast-paced, chilling narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant creation, the sinister monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in mystery. This is an entirely updated edition focusing on the formal, historical and political aspects of one of the finest e[...]
'Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned [...]
Trapped in a gloomy medieval fortress, an orphaned heroine battles the devious schemes of her guardians as well as her own pensive visions and melancholy fancies. Generations of readers have thrilled to this famous Gothic tale and its hypnotic pre-Freudian exploration of the psyche. A best-seller up[...]
Ann Radcliffe, ne Ward (1764-1823) was an English author and a pioneer of the gothic novel. She married William Radcliffe, an editor for the English Chronicle, at Bath in 1788. The couple were childless. To amuse herself, she began to write fiction, which her husband encouraged. Her works were extre[...]