The Mysteries of Udolpho

by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Overview

Originally published in 1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho is Radcliffe's most popular novel and is considered the archetypal Gothic novel. It is about Emily St. Aubert, who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father and supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609425784
Publisher:	Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.
Publication date:	05/21/2021
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was an English writer and poet. Her work typifies the Gothic tradition, yet is infused with a sentiment of romance. Her first two novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) and A Sicilian Romance (1790) were published as an uncredited author. Radcliffes third novel, Romance of the Forest (1791) was a major success, and was published in the second printing under her own name. She became the most popular British novelist of her time with The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), which is considered the consummate expression of the Gothic novel.