The Mysteries of Udolpho; And, a Sicilian Romance (Hardcover)

from CollectorOfAshes

Being my first read of the First Lady of Gothic fiction, I can say that I'm a bit underwhelmed. The story has some occasionally excellent descriptions, lots of emotion, and generally moody atmosphere. However, often the descriptions are generic (must every single sea view have sails?) and the cha...

from kemeki

This work was definitely written in a different time! Parts were a bit slow, which was not what I was expecting. And I wasn't expecting it to be 600+ pages either. The quintessential Gothic novel - it turns out to be true, but if you read it - I recommend just skipping the first volume entirely! ...

from RandyStafford

Accomplished, refined, and beautiful, our heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself orphaned, her finances in doubt, and surrounded by uncaring, vacuous, and social climbing relatives. Refusing to marry her true love Valancourt, she accompanies her aunt to Italy. There, they both become the prisoner...

from kathleen586

I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would! The beginning is slow, but the plot really picks up once Emily gets to Udolpho. I loved that part of the book-it was so gothic and horrifyingly suspenseful! The last volume was a little slow, too, mostly because there was too much of the de Vi...

from JBD1

This is one heck of a long book, but I actually ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would, and was surprised to find that I rather wanted to binge-read it (I expected it might be one of those books that languished on my bedside table for a long time). It's an extremely odd story, filled wi...