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.
Genres
- 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
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