The Romance of the Forest
by:
Ann Radcliffe (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012391704 (0012391700)
Publish date: April 18th 2011
Publisher: Timeless Classic Books
Edition language: English
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...
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