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The plot 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. The Mazzini sisters, Emilia and Julia are 'beautiful' young ladies with many talents.
Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead. After much...

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The Italian is a story of two young people who conceive a deep and abiding love for each other on the strength of a very brief acquaintance, largely consisting of longing for each other from afar after a brief initial meeting and subsequently spending a few boating trips together, chaperoned by suitably respectable relatives.
The boy is from a noble and proud family; the girl, apparently, is from far more humble stock. His parents, hearing scandalous rumours about goings-on between the...

Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel.
Ann Radcliffe defined the "terror" genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with...

Pierre de La Motte et son epouse fuient Paris apres une affaire de jeu. Ils souhaitent quitter le pays le plus vite possible. Mais, perdus en chemin, ils sont victimes d'un accident de voiture. Ils doivent se cacher avec leurs fideles domestiques. Au plus profond d'une foret, ils trouvent un monastere en ruine qui les abritera, pensent-ils, des dangers... Dans ce roman gothique, les multiples peripeties amenent rebondissements epoustouflants et intrigues stupefiantes qui tiennent le lecteur en haleine..."

Im Jahre 1758 begegnen sich die schone Waise Ellena Rosalba und der junge Adelige Vincentio di Vivaldi das erste Mal - fur den heissblutigen Adeligen ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick, und er weiss auch bald Ellenas Herz zu gewinnen. Doch ihre Liebe steht unter keinem guten Stern: Die stolze Marchesa, die Mutter des jungen Vivaldi, ist gegen die Bindung ihres Sohnes mit einer Burgerlichen. Um die Beziehung zu hintertreiben, heckt sie gemeinsam mit ihrem Beichtvater, dem finsteren Monch Schedoni, grausame Plane aus, die Ellena fur immer aus Vivaldis Leben verbannen sollen... Eine sensible...

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An unknown girl given to a stranger, a deserted Abby, secret chambers, bones, a cruel Marquis, the handsome stranger, The Romance of the Forest is a romance novel and adventure in one. A guilty pleasure for young girls whose imagination has a tendency to run wild. What evil lurked each time they took the carriage out? What unknown spirit lived within the forest?
Radcliffe's descriptions of nature and her creation of an admirable, attractive heroine make this book memorable. The elements of...

Wohlbehutet wachsen Julia und Emilia, die Tochter des hartherzigen Marquis von Mazzini, auf dem vaterlichen Schloss auf, wahrend ihr Vater in Neapel weilt. Doch mit der ruhigen Idylle ist es vorbei, als ihr Vater nebst seiner attraktiven Gattin anreist und sich fur einen langeren Aufenthalt einrichtet. Fortan werden auf dem Landsitz prunkvolle Feste gefeiert. Indessen scheint es auf Schloss Mazzini zu spuken. Die ersten seltsamen Erscheinungen werden noch als Sinnestauschungen abgetan, aber bald beginnen die Bediensteten sich vor dem Geist, der im verfallenen Sudflugel des Schlosses sein...

The attempt of Osbert, the Earl of Dunbayne, to bring justice to the killer of his father fails terribly. During his attack on the castle of Athlin, he's seized and imprisoned by his enemy. Worse, Osbert's sister, the lovely and innocent Mary, becomes a pawn in his enemy's plans.

But all is not lost, as the noble-hearted peasant Alleyn desperately searches for a way to free the earl and save Mary from a fate that would make death preferable.

Anne Radcliffe's first published work, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, draws on the influence of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve,...