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A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's c ...Show more
CASTLES OF ATHLIN & DUNBAYNE by RADCLIFFE ANN WARD
Category: Fiction
Book Excerpt, revenge, commanded him to go; filial love, regret, and pity, entreated him to stay. Mary fell at his feet, and clasping his knees with all the wild energy of grief besought him to relinquish his fatal purpose, and save his last surviving parent. Her tears, her sighs, and the soft simplicit ...Show more
Gaston de Blondeville by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Category: Romance
Gaston de Blondeville is an 1826 Gothic novel by noted English author Ann Radcliffe. Set in the 13th century court of England's King Henry III the novel centers around the wedding of the title character. The wedding is interrupted by a merchant who claims to have been wronged by Gaston, in that Gaston m ...Show more
Gaston de Blondeville - Or, the Court of Henry III Keeping Festival at Ardenne by Ann Radcliffe; Frances Chiu (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Valancourt Classics Ser.
King Henry III is holding court at Kenilworth. Festivities abound, wine flows copiously, and spirits are high as the King and his subjects prepare to celebrate the nuptials of Sir Gaston de Blondeville. But the joyous mood is interrupted when a merchant, Hugh Woodreeve, comes distraught before the King ...Show more
St. Alban's Abbey: With Some Poetical Pieces by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Category: Poetry
Ann Radcliffe (nee Ward, 9 July 1764 - 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Her style is Romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural. It was her technique " the explained ...Show more
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Category: History
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. A Highland Story is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. The novel is a set in a powerful landscape which became familiar in her later work, with complex clan feuds and mysterious romantic intrigues played out against a ...Show more
The Haunted Chamber by Ann Ward Radcliffe; Ann Radcliffe
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a lead ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classic | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'His figure was striking, but not so from grace ...and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air; something almost super-human.' First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative c ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ...turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oneworld Classics Ser.
The Italian (1796), The Confessional of the Black Penitents, a Gothic romance novel by British author Ann Radcliffe. The themes include love, devotion and persecution by the Holy Inquisition, with the historical backdrop of the French Revolution.The tone is dark and mysterious. The themes revolve around ...Show more