Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons: sort of a Nancy Drew openingI'm cross-posting my own review because eventually I hope to have read the entire horrible book, and I'd like to have all the sub-reviews collected. Wow. So it's clear why this didn't remain a popular book for long. All of th...
This is the story about how Emily St Aubert, a modest young woman of good character, overcomes her high principles and decides that maybe her legal guardian is not correct in locking her and her aunt up in his remote Italian castle in order to obtain possession of their estates. Of stalkers suitors ...
Even though this was a book that I had wanted to read for sometime, I struggled with it. While reading the book, I found that I really couldn't keep my interest with the book and found it to be a bit of a chore, even though at times I could get myself engrossed with the story. I found it to be som...
bookshelves: skoolzy-stuff, published-1794, gothic, gutenberg-project, e-book, summer-2014, classic, boo-scary Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: FutureLearn Recommended for: Laura, Jemidar etc Read from June 26 to 30, 2014 Read here Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns,And, as the portals ...
What a treat this is! The Mysteries of Udolpho, another Gothic novel, follows the trials and tribulations of Emily, a young woman who loses her family, her home and her lover through a concatenation of unfortunate events that brings her eventually to Castle Udolpho, a dark and vicious place ruled ov...
If The Romance of the Forest (hereafter ROF), were a film, it would be gorgeous - crumbly ruins, Swiss Alps, lakes, weeping willows, dark prisons, skeletons in basements. Guillermo Del Toro would be all over this shit. And if M. Night and Del Toro had a lovechild, he would direct this rambling explo...
I'm reading an abridged version of The Mysteries of Udolpho, having been warned that it's unnecessarily long (and poorly written); but I think I'll have to switch to the unabridged version. My abridged version chopped out so much content that I have no idea how Emily got into Montoni's castle and wo...
I checked out this collection at my library for an abridged version of The Mysteries of Udolpho (which I had been warned is unnecessarily long), but the text given here is excessively abridged, to the point that the reader can't know everything important that happens in The Mysteries of Udolpho and ...
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