The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry: NOVEL by: Ann Radcliffe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540664082)

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in four volumes on 8 May 1794 by G. G. and J. Robinson of London. The firm paid her 500 for the manuscript. The contract is housed at the University of Virginia Library. 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. Often cited as the archetypal Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, along with Radcliffe's novel The Romance of the Forest, plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young woman, after reading Radcliffe's novel, comes to see her friends and acquaintances as Gothic villains and victims with amusing results.

Author: Ann Radcliffe
ISBN-10: 1540664082
ISBN-13: 9781540664082
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2016
Pages: 472
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.95d