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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was an entertaining enough novel for a pleasure-read, but genre confused, and not all that well written. It's an interesting quick look into popular literature of the 18th Century, and one of the "horrid" novels mentioned in Northanger Abbey by Austen...but probably not something I'll come back to now that I've read it once. (  ) whitewavedarling | Nov 7, 2008 |  gimletfamily | Jun 7, 2007 | I wanted to read this book because it was one of the 'horrid novels' that Isabella and Catherine mentioned reading in Northanger Abbey. This early gothic novel was published before both The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk. The story in this book moves very quickly, but at only 203 pages, I guess it has to. I enjoyed the storyline, as well as the characters, although I was expecting more storyline regarding the haunting of the castle. Matilda is a typical gothic heroine, spending much time crying, fainting and in constant peril. I'm glad I read it, though, and am looking forward to the other Northanger Novels. (  ) kalypso219 | Dec 31, 1969 |  no reviews | add a review
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Matilda Weimar flees her lecherous and incestuous uncle and seeks refuge in the ancient Castle of Wolfenbach. Among the castle's abandoned chambers, Matilda will discover the horrifying mystery of the missing Countess of Wolfenbach. But when her uncle tracks her down, can she escape his despicable intentions?
One of the seven "horrid novels" named in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, The Castle of Wolfenbach is perhaps the most important of the early Gothic novels, predating both The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk.
This edition reprints the complete text of the 1793 edition and includes a new introduction and notes by Diane Long Hoeveler, one of the foremost modern scholars of Gothic literature and feminism.
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