The Italian
'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.'Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel.Ann Radcliffe defined the 'terror' genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel,…
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Weitere Autoren: Groom, Nick (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-100955-6
- EAN: 9780191009556
- Produktnummer: 22592499
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'354 KB
- Auflage: 3. Auflage
Über den Autor
Nick Groom has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, with particular interest in questions of authenticity and the emergence of national and regional identity. His books include The Gothic (2012) for the Very Short Introductions series, The Union Jack: the Story of the British Flag (Atlantic, 2006), and The Seasons: an Elegy for the Passing of the Year (Atlantic, 2013). For Oxford World's Classics he has editedWalpole's The Castle of Otranto and Matthew Lewis's The Monk.
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