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A Sicilian romance

  • Ann Radcliffe

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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 novel, and the idol of the Romantics.

This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents 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.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Fiction, gothic
  • Sicily (italy), fiction
  • Italy, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction
  • Fiction, romance, historical, general
  • Long now manual for civilization
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About the author

  • Ann Radcliffe

    9 Jul 1764 - 7 Feb 1823

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    6 ratings · 223 works

Editions

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    Oxford University Press

    1993

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    IndyPublish.com

    July 2003

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    IndyPublish.com

    July 2003

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    Hard Press

    November 3, 2006

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Woodstock Books

1994

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    Facsim.of 1792 Ed edition

    Cassell Academic

    August 1996

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    Kessinger Publishing

    June 30, 2004

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    Oxford University Press

    2008

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    Folio Society

    1987

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    Johnson Reprint Corp.

    1971

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    Printed for Henry and Patrick Rice, and James Rice and Co. Baltimore.

    1795

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    New edition.

    printed by W. Lewis...,for J. Jones...

    1821

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    printed for T. Hookham

    1792

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    printed for T. Hookham

    1790

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    Arno Press

    1972

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    Printed for T. Hookham

    1790

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    J. Limbird

    1827