The Gothic Romance Novels Of Ann Radcliffe

For the first time as a paperback, all six of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels are collected together in a single volume, including the posthumously published Gaston de Blondeville. Also included within this volume are: The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and The Italian, all complete with the relevant poetry.This is a reworking and amalgamation of all six novels, not a cheap scan or the result of copying and pasting; It contains no missing pages, areas of blurred or missing text, photocopier's fingers, coffee stains, or other scanning artifacts. It has all of the original text, retyped and reformatted to reduce the page count. The complete work is offered here at a price much lower than that of buying all the volumes separately.Please note that some readers may find the text size of this volume a little small, in which case the two volume version, with much larger text, may be more appropriate. Vol 1 comprises Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, The Sicilian, Romance of the Forest, and The Italian; Vol 2 consists of The Mysteries of Udolpho and Gaston de Blondeville.

Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course of the novel she travels rapidly through the forests and Gothic ruins of France, pursued by the villain de Montfort and perpetually threatened by what appear to be supernatural events. The publication of The Romance of the Forest in 1791 had a significant impact on Radcliffe’s career and on the rise of what would be known as the Gothic novel. The novel was widely praised upon publication and became a measure of quality against which all her future novels were gauged. Along with critical praise, The Romance of the Forest found an enthusiastic general audience and opened the new genre of Gothic Romance to a wider range of readers. The extensive historical appendices provide material on the novel’s contemporary reception, the Gothic novel, sensibility and sentiment, and the aesthetics of the sublime and picturesque.

To her contemporaries, Ann Radcliffe was 'The Great Enchantress'. Her wild and stormy Gothic romances made her one of the most popular and successful writers of the later eighteenth century.

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Four of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels here collected together in a single volume, including within this volume are: The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the Forest, and The Italian, all complete with the relevant poetry.This is a reworking and amalgamation of all four novels, not a cheap scan or the result of copying and pasting; it contains no missing pages, areas of blurred or missing text, photocopier's fingers, coffee stains, or other scanning artifacts. It has all of the original text, retyped and reformatted to reduce the page count.

This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level. The atmosphere of fear and the gripping plot continue to thrill today. This is the story of the orphaned Emily St Aubert who finds herself separated from the man she loves and confined within the Castle of Udolpho by her aunt's new husband, Montoni. Here she must cope with an unwanted suitor, Montoni's threats, and the wild imaginings and terrors which threaten to overwhelm her.