Mysteries of Udolpho (Everyman's Library)

Literature & Fiction

Ann Radcliffe

Classics

Dent

Mysteries of Udolpho (Everyman Paperbacks)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (Pocket Classic

Sutton Publishing+ltd

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Barnes&Noble

In The Italian (1797), Ann Radcliffe pits a scheming noblewoman and a ruthless monk against young lovers trying to bridge seemingly insurmountable class differences. The scenes of sublime nature, mysterious groans, corrupt ecclesiastics, isolated fortifications, and Inquisitorial torture reveal eighteenth-century Gothic fiction at its finest. The Italian stands as the final and darkest work of England's most successful Gothic novelist, and it presents Radcliffe at the peak of her literary skills. 
The Valancourt Books edition includes a carefully annotated and edited first edition text with a substantial introductory essay on the literary, historical, and biographical contexts of the novel. The appendix features a map of locations in The Italian, three complete Gothic stories by Radcliffe's contemporaries, and essays on terror fiction by Nathan Drake and John and Anna Aikin.

The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents (Valancourt Classics)

Contemporary

Valancourt Books

Beautiful young Emily D'Orville lives a peaceful existence in the French countryside with her loving parents. But when tragedy strikes and leaves her an orphan, Emily is separated from her true love Angereau and imprisoned in the Castle of Gorgono, her sinister uncle's fortress in the Apennine Mountains. Can Emily escape the horrors of Gorgono, or will she fall victim to Signor Androssi and his murderous friends? And what is the mystery of the horrifying picture that hangs in a locked chamber, shrouded in a black veil? 
First published in 1802, The Veiled Picture is a chapbook redaction of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic masterpiece The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). The Veiled Picture faithfully preserves every major character and plot element from Udolpho while eliminating many of its details and descriptions, making it the ideal introduction to the study of Radcliffe's work. 
This Valancourt Books edition includes a new introduction and notes by Jack G. Voller, as well as a wealth of appendices, including the complete text of contemporary reviews of Udolpho, contemporary reactions, mini essays on Gothic architecture and the sublime, and a comparison of key passages in The Veiled Picture and The Mysteries of Udolpho.

The Veiled Picture; Or, the Mysteries of Gorgono, the Appennien Castle of Signor Androssi: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century (Gothic Classics)

Literary

The Romance of the Forest BY Ann Radcliffe

Romance Of The Forest

Independently published

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert, who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle and the machinations of an Italian brigand. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psychological terror; remote, crumbling castles; seemingly supernatural events; a brooding, scheming villain; and a persecuted heroine. Modern editors point out that only about one-third of the novel is set in the eponymous Gothic castle, and that the tone and style vary markedly between sections of the work. Radcliffe also added extensive descriptions of exotic landscapes in the Pyrenees and Apennines, and of Venice, none of which she visited and for details of which she relied on contemporary travel books, leading to the introduction of several anachronisms. Set in 1584 in southern France and northern Italy, the novel focuses on the plight of Emily St. Aubert, a young French woman who is orphaned after the death of her father. Emily suffers imprisonment in the castle Udolpho at the hands of Signor Montoni, an Italian brigand who has married her aunt and guardian Madame Cheron. Emily's romance with the dashing Valancourt is frustrated by Montoni and others. Emily also investigates the mysterious relationship between her father and the Marchioness de Villeroi, and its connection to the castle at Udolpho.

The Mysteries of Udolpho: By Ann Radcliffe - Illustrated

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Babblebooks

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 The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, Radcliffe s uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth... Radcliffe s work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey. The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction.

The Italian (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural)

Genre Fiction

Wordsworth Editions Ltd.

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