693 pages
English language
Published Nov. 11, 1998 by Oxford University Press.
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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.
Subjects
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Guardian and ward -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Castles -- Fiction
- Italy -- Fiction