La novela gótica tuvo padre y madre: Horace Walpole y Ann Radcliffe. De entre las obras de esta última destaca "El italiano o el confesionario de los penitentes negros", obra en la que la intriga y la acción enmarcan un relato...
Si Horace Walpole puede considerarse el padre indiscutible de la novela gótica, Ann Radcliffe fue sin duda la madre. La ingeniosa y racionalista Ann Radcliffe evoca en sus obras los aspectos más sombríos y dramáticos de la natu...
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Original texts of the first editions, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: Osbert, Earl of Athlin, is driven by a passionate desire to avenge...
Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Adeline, a young orphan, by mysterious ways comes into the care of Pierre de la Mottes, an impoverished...
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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...
This novel introduces Schedoni, the villainous scheming monk, and tells of the romance between a young Neapolitan nobleman and his lover, a match opposed by his mother, who enlists the help of Schedoni to stop the affair.