Ann Radcliffe
1) The Italian
7) The Italian
A young nobleman falls in love at first sight with an enigmatic beauty, but their love is tested through the machinations of the sinister Father Schedoni.
Radcliffe's second novel concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. -Wikipedia
Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's
...Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's
...Radcliffe's second novel concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. -Wikipedia
12) The Italian
A young nobleman falls in love at first sight with an enigmatic beauty, but their love is tested through the machinations of the sinister Father Schedoni.
The Gothic Terror Megapack presents 17 tales from the early and late Gothic periods, drawn from both the English and American Gothic movements. Here you will find murder, insanity, scandal, obsession, secrets, and gloom...and even the occasional ghost. Included are:
A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family, by J. Sheridan LeFanu
Jack Long; or The Shot in the Eye, by Charles Wilkins Webber
Master Sacristan Eberhart, by Sabine Baring-Gould
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