Les Mystères de la forêt
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782070304219 (2070304213)
Publish date: November 24th 2011
Publisher: Folio
Pages no: 546
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Mystery,
English Literature,
Gothic,
18th Century
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...
[These notes were made in June, 1981:]. Source - Robarts. Finished May/81. Having read Castles and Sicilian Romance, I am amazed at the astonishing improvement in this book. For my money it is better than Udolpho - it is mercifully free of the excessive natural description, and its death-cell sce...