La novela gótica tuvo padre y madre: Horace Walpole y Ann Radcliffe. De entre las obras de esta última destaca "El italiano o el confesionario de los penitentes negros", obra en la que la intriga y la acción enmarcan un relato...
Os castelos de Athlin e Dunbayne (1789) é unha das obras aurorais da novela gótica. Ambientada nas Highlands escocesas, o relato mergúllanos nunha intensa historia de amores, crimes, traizóns e vinganzas onde a procura da honra...
Si Horace Walpole puede considerarse el padre indiscutible de la novela gótica, Ann Radcliffe fue sin duda la madre. La ingeniosa y racionalista Ann Radcliffe evoca en sus obras los aspectos más sombríos y dramáticos de la natu...
Colección: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) es la escritora más emblemática de la imaginación gótica, y sus novelas fueron punto de referencia para los autores que cultivaron el género.
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Original texts of the first editions, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: Osbert, Earl of Athlin, is driven by a passionate desire to avenge...
Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Adeline, a young orphan, by mysterious ways comes into the care of Pierre de la Mottes, an impoverished...
Original text of the first edition, unabridged and carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincentio di Vivaldi first saw...
Original text, unabridged, carefully revised, and supplemented by numerous contemporary illustrations from early editions. "Confined in the gloomy castle of Udolpho, young orphan Emily St. Aubert has to fight against the devious plans of her guardian...
In 1758 in the church of San Lorenzo in Naples where Vincentio di Vivaldi sees the beautiful Ellena di Rosalba with her aunt, Signora Bianchi. Vivaldi is struck with her beauty, and intends to court her, with the hopes that they will end up married. When...
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...
With The Mysteries of Udolpho , Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine's inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, and providing a gripping plot that continues to...
This novel introduces Schedoni, the villainous scheming monk, and tells of the romance between a young Neapolitan nobleman and his lover, a match opposed by his mother, who enlists the help of Schedoni to stop the affair.