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Original texts of the first editions, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: Osbert, Earl of Athlin, is driven by a passionate desire to avenge the murder of...
Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Adeline, a young orphan, by mysterious ways comes into the care of Pierre de la Mottes, an impoverished nobleman who is...
Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincentio di Vivaldi first saw Ellena Rosalba" - it...
Original text, unabridged, carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Confined in the gloomy castle of Udolpho, young orphan Emily St. Aubert has to fight against the devious plans of her guardian Montoni, uncanny...
'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking...
This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert...
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...
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 andThe Italian. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the...
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...
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...
`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...
Ann Radcliffe publie en 1790 son deuxième roman, A Sicilian Romance, s’inscrivant dans le courant gothique, alors en vogue en Angleterre. À la fin du xvie siècle, deux jeunes filles de la noblesse, Julia et sa soeur Emilia, vivent dans un château solitaire sur la côte...
L'héroïne, Emilie Saint Aubert, affronte de nombreux malheurs dès son plus jeune âge : la perte de ses parents, le remariage de sa tante, sa tutrice, avec un riche et mystérieux Italien.Udolfo, le sombre château dans lequel Emilie est retenue prisonnière par l'Italien...
Dans une église de Naples, le jeune comte Vincenzo de Vivaldi voit pour la première fois la jeune Elena Rosalba. Son attention est attirée, et très vite il devient amoureux. Mais dans cette Italie de la fin du XVIIIe siècle, les parents de Vincenzo voient d'un mauvais...
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