**A rhetorician of the late second century, Athenaeus wrote 'The Deipnosophistae' ('Dinner-Table Philosophers'), a fifteen-book encyclopaedia of information on the ancient world, preserving otherwise lost treasures from many important writers. The text is structured as a dialogue in the vein of Plat
Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)
β Scribed by Ann Radcliffe
- Publisher
- Delphi Classics
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A pioneer of the Gothic novel, Ann Radcliffeβs atmospheric tales of forlorn landscapes, haunted ruins and spine-tingling adventures helped the Gothic genre to achieve respectability in the late eighteenth century. This comprehensive eBook presents Radcliffeβs complete works, with numerous illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Radcliffe's life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* ALL 6 novels, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Radcliffeβs masterpiece THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO is fully illustrated with the original serialisation artwork
* Includes Radcliffeβs rare poetry, including the epic ST. ALBANβS ABBEY, appearing here for the first time in digital print
* Explore the authorβs non fiction travel works and her intriguing pre-feminist text THE FEMALE ADVOCATE
* Includes the 1826 biography, with extracts from Radcliffe's journal - discover the authorβs adventurous life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Novels
THE CASTLES OF ATHLIN AND DUNBAYNE: A HIGHLAND STORY
A SICILIAN ROMANCE
THE ROMANCE OF THE FOREST: INTERSPERSED WITH SOME PIECES OF POETRY
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO
THE ITALIAN
GASTON DE BLONDEVILLE
The Poetry
ST. ALBANβS ABBEY: WITH SOME POETICAL PIECES
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
The Non-Fiction
JOURNEY MADE IN THE SUMMER OF 1794
THE FEMALE ADVOCATE
The Biography
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MRS. RADCLIFFE
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