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Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance (Annotated) by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance (Annotated) written by Ann Radcliffe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Radcliff, was an English author, and pioneer of the gothic novel. Her works were extremely popular, especially with respectably sheltered young women who were starved for something a bit more exciting than needlepoint. Her works included The Sicilian Romance [1790], The Romance of the Forest [1791], The Mysteries of Udolpho [1794], and The Italian [1796] A Sicilian Romance was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Mazzini sisters, Emilia and Julia are 'beautiful' young ladies with many talents. Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead...
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Radcliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic nove, and the idol of the Romantics. This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and covents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy. Julia and Emilia Mazzini live secluded in an ancient mansion near the Straits of Messina. After their father's return to the island a neglected part of the house is haunted by a series of mysterious sights and sounds. The origin of these hauntings is only discovered after a series of breathless pursuits through dreamlike pastoral landscapes. When revelation finally comes, it forces the heroines to challenge the united forces of religious and patriarchal authority. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the northern shore of Sicily are still to be seen the magnificent remains of a castle, which formerly belonged to the noble house of Mazzini. It stands in the centre of a small bay, and upon a gentle acclivity, which, on one side, slopes towards the sea, and on the other rises into an eminence crowned by dark woods. The situation is admirably beautiful and picturesque, and the ruins have an air of ancient grandeur, which, contrasted with the present solitude of the scene, impresses the traveller with awe and curiosity. During my travels abroad I visited this spot. As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered through the immense area of the fabrick, and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls stood proudly in their original splendour, when the halls were the scenes of hospitality and festive magnificence, and when they resounded with the voices of those whom death had long since swept from the earth. 'Thus,' said I, 'shall the present generation—he who now sinks in misery—and he who now swims in pleasure, alike pass away and be forgotten.' My heart swelled with the reflection; and, as I turned from the scene with a sigh, I fixed my eyes upon a friar, whose venerable figure, gently bending towards the earth, formed no uninteresting object in the picture. He observed my emotion; and, as my eye met his, shook his head and pointed to the ruin. 'These walls,' said he, 'were once the seat of luxury and vice. They exhibited a singular instance of the retribution of Heaven, and were from that period forsaken, and abandoned to decay.' His words excited my curiosity, and I enquired further concerning their meaning. 'A solemn history belongs to this castle, said he, 'which is too long and intricate for me to relate. It is, however, contained in a manuscript in our library, of which I could, perhaps, procure you a sight. A brother of our order, a descendant of the noble house of Mazzini, collected and recorded the most striking incidents relating to his family, and the history thus formed, he left as a legacy to our convent. If you please, we will walk thither.' I accompanied him to the convent, and the friar introduced me to his superior, a man of an intelligent mind and benevolent heart, with whom I passed some hours in interesting conversation. I believe my sentiments pleased him; for, by his indulgence, I was permitted to take abstracts of the history before me, which, with some further particulars obtained in conversation with the abate, I have arranged in the following pages.
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : A. N. N. ANN RADCLIFFE
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by A. N. N. ANN RADCLIFFE and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANN RADCLIFFE
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis Sicilian romance : in two volumes. 2 (1971) by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book Sicilian romance : in two volumes. 2 (1971) written by Ann Radcliffe and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1971 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Radcliffe and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sicilian Romance begins when a tourist meets a local monk at the crumbling ruins of the castle Mazzini. The monk invites her to the monastery to view a manuscript that records the mysterious happenings that occurred hundreds of years ago in the once-great castle. The manuscript tells of the plight of two sisters, Julia and Emilia Mazzini, who, after the return of their tyrannical father, witness supernatural phenomena around the castle’s neglected southern wing. Radcliffe was viewed as the greatest writer of the Gothic literary style by most early 19th century critics and literary historians despite Horace Walpole seemingly “inventing” the genre in The Castle of Otranto. A Sicilian Romance was first published anonymously in 1790, making it the second of her published works.
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by the Authoress of The Castle of Athlin and Dunbayne [i.e. Ann Radcliffe] by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance by the Authoress of The Castle of Athlin and Dunbayne [i.e. Ann Radcliffe] written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Refuge by : Henry Blake Fuller
Download or read book The Last Refuge written by Henry Blake Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance written by Ann Radcliffe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sicilian Romance The House of Mazzini by Ann Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Mazzini sisters, Emilia and Julia are 'beautiful' young ladies with many talents. Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead. After much thought Julia attempts to elope with Hippolitus on the night before her wedding. However, their escape had been anticipated, and the Marquis, Julia's father, ambushes and seemingly kills Hippolitus whose body is carried away by his servants. The Marquis tells Julia that she must marry the duke and after much difficulty she escapes again alone. The Marquis and the Duke spend much of the novel trying to catch Julia and force her to marry the duke. Julia has to flee from her various hiding places as she narrowly avoids capture and eventually ends up, by a secret tunnel, in the abandoned and seemingly haunted southern apartments of the Mazzini castle only to find that her mother, thought to be dead, had been imprisoned there for years by the Marquis, who had grown to despise her. The Marquis's new wife, Maria de Vellorno, commits murder-suicide after the Marquis discovers and accuses her of infidelity, poisoning the Marquis and stabbing herself. Before he dies the Marquis confesses to Ferdinand, his son, that his mother has been imprisoned, and hands him the keys. However, his mother and Julia had already been freed by Hippolitus, who had recovered from his wounds. Ferdinand then finds them at a lighthouse on the coast, waiting to leave for Italy, and they are all joyfully reunited. The introduction to the Oxford World's Classics edition notes that in this novel "Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics". The novel explores the "cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy" On the northern shore of Sicily are still to be seen the magnificent remains of a castle, which formerly belonged to the noble house of Mazzini. It stands in the centre of a small bay, and upon a gentle acclivity, which, on one side, slopes towards the sea, and on the other rises into an eminence crowned by dark woods. The situation is admirably beautiful and picturesque, and the ruins have an air of ancient grandeur, which, contrasted with the present solitude of the scene, impresses the traveller with awe and curiosity. During my travels abroad I visited this spot. As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered through the immense area of the fabrick, and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls stood proudly in their original splendour, when the halls were the scenes of hospitality and festive magnificence, and when they resounded with the voices of those whom death had long since swept from the earth. 'Thus,' said I, 'shall the present generation--he who now sinks in misery--and he who now swims in pleasure, alike pass away and be forgotten.' ......
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Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance: A Quick Read edition by : Quick Read
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance: A Quick Read edition written by Quick Read and published by Quick Read. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Sicilian Romance" is a gothic novel written by Ann Radcliffe and published anonymously in 1790. The story revolves around the fallen nobility of the Mazzini family in Sicily. The plot is narrated by a tourist who learns about their turbulent history from a monk at the ruins of their castle. The Marquis Mazzini's daughters, Emilia and Julia, are beautiful and accomplished young ladies. Julia falls in love with the Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but her father insists she marry Duke de Luovo instead. Julia attempts to elope with Hippolitus but is ambushed by her father, who seemingly kills Hippolitus. Julia escapes and finds refuge in the haunted southern apartments of the castle, where she discovers her long-imprisoned mother. The Marquis's new wife is accused of infidelity and poisons the Marquis before stabbing herself. Before dying, the Marquis confesses to his son Ferdinand about his mother's imprisonment. Ferdinand finds Julia and his mother, who have already been freed by Hippolitus. They are joyfully reunited at a lighthouse on the coast. The novel explores the psychology of terror and poetic descriptions, revealing the secrets of Sicily's aristocracy. Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 14 minutes
Book Synopsis The Last Refuge by : Henry B. Fuller
Download or read book The Last Refuge written by Henry B. Fuller and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by : Ann Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by Ann Radcliffe and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sicilian Romance. Fourth Edition by : Ann Ward Radcliffe
Download or read book A Sicilian Romance. Fourth Edition written by Ann Ward Radcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: