The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe · 1794 · 506 pages
ISBN 9780140437591
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel. A young woman, Emily St. Aubert, suffers the death of her father, followed by worsening physical and psychological death, mirrored in a landscape of crumbling castles and emotive Alps.
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