The Mysteries of Udolpho

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About the book

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

  • air
  • asphyxiating and poisonous gases
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • castles
  • classic literature
  • communication and traffic
  • fiction
  • fiction, horror
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, religious
  • gothic fiction (literary genre)
  • gothic novels
  • guardian and ward
  • haunted houses
  • inheritance and succession
  • italy, fiction
  • long now manual for civilization
  • measurement
  • orphans
  • pollution
  • young women
  • young women, fiction