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The Italian (Paperback, UK ed.)
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The Italian (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
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With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and
bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes
... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her
from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe,
author of The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho,
is the high priestess of the gothic novel. In The Italian, first
published in 1797, she creates a chilling, atmospheric concoction
of thwarted lovers, ruined abbeys, imprisonment and dark passages,
with an undercurrent of seething sexuality and presents us with a
cunning villain in the sinister monk Schedoni. A contemporary
review commented on, 'Radcliffe's uncommon talent for exhibiting,
with picturesque touches of genius, the vague and horrid shapes
which imagination bodies forth...' Radcliffe's work was hugely
influential and H.P. Lovecraft, early twentieth century master of
the uncanny, was impressed by the, 'eerie touch of setting and
action contributing artistically to the impression of illimitable
frightfulness which she wished to convey.' The novel remains a
fascinating, engrossing and unnerving masterpiece of gothic
fiction.
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