The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford English Novels) (Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy) (Penguin Classic Romance Thillers)

by Ann Radcliffe

Jacqueline Howard (Notes)

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With its insightful portrayals of her protagonist's inner life, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho was a hugely influential work of early Gothic horror. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Jacqueline Howard.

Emily St Aubert lives with her loving, enlightened parents in exquisitely happy rural isolation. But when she is tragically orphaned, the beautiful young woman is thrown on the mercy of her heartless aunt's sinister new husband. The villainous Signor Montoni has designs upon his wife's fortune, and that of her niece, and imprisons them in the gloomy medieval castle Udolpho. Separated from...

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  • ISBN10 0140437592
  • ISBN13 9780140437591
  • Publish Date 26 April 2001 (first published March 1966)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics