The Mysteries of Udolpho - Volumes I and II

Description:

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: Castles,  Classic Literature,  Fiction,  Gothic novels,  Guardian and ward,  Inheritance and succession,  Orphans,  Young women,  Air,  Asphyxiating and poisonous Gases,  Pollution,  Measurement,  Haunted houses,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Italy, fiction,  Fiction, horror,  Fiction, religious,  Young women, fiction,  Communication and traffic,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Gothic fiction (literary genre),  Long now manual for civilization

Places: Italy