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The Mysteries of Udolpho (Annotated) By Ann Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho (Annotated)

By Ann Radcliffe

  • Release Date: 2015-11-11
  • Genre: Paranormal Romance
  • $2.99

Description

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was first put out 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.
This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  The book has also been annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, plot introduction, plot information, characters, references in other places, biographical and bibliographical information.