Al-Warraq Library

Home / Horror / The Mysteries of Udolpho

HorrorThe Mysteries of UdolphoAnn Ward RadcliffeThe Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

HorrorEnglish
0 views
Read the bookGutenberg book pageInternet Archive

Al-Warraq Library does not host book files; it takes you to the copy at the original source. Public-domain status differs from country to country, so check the law where you live before downloading or republishing the book. Do you hold rights in this work? Request its removal

After the death of her beloved father, the young and sensitive Emily St Aubert is placed in the care of her aunt, who marries the sinister Italian nobleman…

Catalogue details

Author
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Category
Horror
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

After the death of her beloved father, the young and sensitive Emily St Aubert is placed in the care of her aunt, who marries the sinister Italian nobleman Montoni. He carries them off to his gloomy castle of Udolpho in the Apennines, where Emily is cut off from the man she loves and surrounded by mysteries: hidden passages, strange music at night and a black veil she lifts once and cannot forget.

Context and significance

Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) was the most popular novelist of the 1790s and the best paid, and her way of building suspense, then explaining her ghosts away, shaped the Gothic novel. Published in 1794, Udolpho is long and full of landscape descriptions and poems, and it is the book Jane Austen gently mocked in Northanger Abbey.

Similar books