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A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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's c ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. '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 ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative c ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
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 lead ...Show more
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
This classic novel tells the story of the orphaned Emily St. Aubert who find herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho. A new introduction discusses the Gothic Romance genre, Radcliffe's use of the supernatural and there are explanatory textual notes.
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Gothic, SF and Dark Fantasy Ser.
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 finds ...Show more
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 hero ...Show more
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