The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford Worl...
Ann Ward RadcliffeAnn Radcliffe's orphaned heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself imprisoned in her evil guardian Count Montoni's gloomy medieval fortress in the remote Apennines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily str...
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
Ann Ward RadcliffeYears ago, when Young Earl Osbert of Castle Athlin was a boy, his father was ambused and slain by Baron Malcolm of Dunbayne. Now Osbert has come into his majority, and in the company of a sturdy and heroic young peasant named Alleyn h...
A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World's Cl...
Ann Ward RadcliffeIn A Sicilian Romance (1790) 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. This early nov...
The Italian; Or, the Confessional of ...
Ann Ward RadcliffeIn 'The Italian' (1797), Ann Radcliffe pits a scheming noblewoman and a ruthless monk against young lovers trying to bridge seemingly insurmountable class differences. The scenes of sublime nature, mysterious groans, corrupt ecclesias...
The Romance of the Forest (Oxford Wor...
Ann Ward RadcliffeThis novel, although not as well-known as Radcliffe's later works, is thought to represent her work at its best. More than just a work of suspense and mystery, it is a work of ideas--a discussion of the contrasts between hedonistic d...
The Veiled Picture; or, The Mysteries...
Ann Ward RadcliffeBeautiful young Emily D'Orville lives a peaceful existence in the French countryside with her loving parents. But when tragedy strikes and leaves her an orphan, Emily is separated from her true love Angereau and imprisoned in the Cast...