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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676 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 1980 by Oxford University Press.
Subjects
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
- Guardian and ward -- Fiction.
- Young women -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Castles -- Fiction.
- Italy -- Fiction.