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The Italian: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural

by Ann Radcliffe
The Italian: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
The Italian: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural

Chilling gothic romance with sinister overtones.

If you're enthralled by a mix of dark gothic atmosphere and the entanglements of doomed love, Radcliffe's "The Italian" could be your next great escape. Imagine wandering through desolate abbeys and getting lost in shadowy corridors, all the while sensing the presence of looming, sinister figures. It's an exquisite example of classic gothic fiction that has been both thrilling and terrifying readers for centuries.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Italian: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural

by Ann Radcliffe
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ISBN: 9781840226683
Authors: Ann Radcliffe
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Date of Publication: 2011-01-15
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Horror, Romance
Related Topics: Gothic, Mystery, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.53
(rated by 6050 readers)

Description

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 The Mysteries of Udolpho, is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages, with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary review commented on, 'Radcliffe's uncommon talent for exhibiting, with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes which imagination bodies forth...' Radcliffe's work was hugely influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of the uncanny, was impressed by the, 'eerie touch of setting and action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable frightfulness which she wished to convey.' The novel remains a fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic fiction.
 

Chilling gothic romance with sinister overtones.

If you're enthralled by a mix of dark gothic atmosphere and the entanglements of doomed love, Radcliffe's "The Italian" could be your next great escape. Imagine wandering through desolate abbeys and getting lost in shadowy corridors, all the while sensing the presence of looming, sinister figures. It's an exquisite example of classic gothic fiction that has been both thrilling and terrifying readers for centuries.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.