The Mysteries of Udolpho
By Ann Radcliffe & Bonamy Dobree
- Release Date: 1998-06-18
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. With its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, The Mysteries of Udolpho is a fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.