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... slowly rereading since then. I've reread P&P and S&S several times, and I've also reread Northanger Abbey after reading The Mysteries of Udolpho. And I've reread Mansfield Park. That leaves Emma and Persuasion to reread, and I'll want to do Lady Susan again too. I see I will have ...

... Brockton Brown's Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. At that point I will put my foot down and demand The Mysteries of Udolpho. So there!!!

I'll be finishing The Mysteries of Udolpho sometime in the near future! I'm not sure what's after that though - I'm definitely going to re-read Tess of the d'Urbervilles (for a book club), but I'll probably throw something else in there as well.

... George Eliot The History Of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell What Maisie Knew by Henry James The Mysteries Of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne

I have this one lined up to read on Christmas break (I try to read one Jane Austen a year). I haven't read Mysteries of Udolpho yet, but I did read The Castle of Otranto, which JA also used in writing Northanger Abbey. I thought Castle of Otranto was awful, by the way.

... much fun. I have also enjoyed some of Austen's comments about novel reading in general. If you have read Ann Radcliff The Mysteries of Udolpho Northanger Abbey is ever more fun. When I am patient and in the mood for Jane Austen, her novels of manners are very welcome. Such a strange ...

... N - Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky O - The Famished Road by Ben Okri P - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Q - R - The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe S - The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon T - Monster Love by Carol Topolski U - The Ruby In Her Navel by Barry Unsworth V - C ...

Doctor Grimshawʻs Secret by Nathaniel Hawthorne* The Mysteries of Paris by Eugene Sue The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth* The Secret History by Procopius (have read, hurriedly) *own these, ...

>78 Actually, when I was at Oxford, I studied The Mysteries of Udolpho in conjunction with Northanger Abbey. Which is not to say Radcliffe is on the same level, but it was interesting to read Radcliffe, and then read the Austen's parody/homage to those pulpy Gothic novels. Certainly, it gave ...

... I've had too many students come up to me and tell me how grateful they were that I required works like the Odyssey or The Mysteries of Udolpho, which they would never have read on their own but which they now loved. Imagine spending years reading nothing but the Sweet Valley High series.

The Mysteries of Udolpho features heavily in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. in non-fiction, Musn't Grumble by Joe Bennett follows the trail of H.V. Morton's In Search of England.

... and strange tale. The children have been living in India, a land of mysticism. The narrator links the situation to The Mysteries of Udolpho and Jane Eyre. Despite the distance I felt, I was interested enough to try and second guess the plotline. Unfortunately I found the ending ...

... I've also studied Northanger Abbey and agree with the posters, it does help if you read the books parodied in the text, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk.

I finally finished The Mysteries of Udolpho today. Parts of it were a lot of fun, but other parts really dragged. The over-use of commas was distracting, and I skipped all the poetry. Now I am going to start Wings of Wrath, the new C.S. Friedman that I was delighted to find at the library ...

44. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe DONE!!!! That one was a challenge, and I am so glad to be finished with it.

Still working on The Mysteries of Udolpho, which did improve. I digressed again yesterday, though, since a book I had been waiting for came in at the library. 43. If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Slogging through The Mysteries of Udolpho. I totally agree with the above post about reading what interests you vs. what sounds impressive, but I really want to read (and hopefully like) this book, so I am going to keep reading for a while hoping that it will get more interesting.

... I also bought the next one, Club Dead. The vampire book was a digression from the book I am supposed to be reading, The Mysteries of Udolpho. I slogged through book one of four, 160 pages of a weepy heroine, mediocre poetry, interminable descriptions of scenery, and the most egregious ...

Almost through with The Mysteries of Udolpho. Way too much fainting and tears for me, but there are some good gothic elements here and there. Also reading How Shall We Then Live (Francis A. Schaeffer) which raises some fascinating points about history, for instance -- why did the English ...

... the CW right now--just finished Battle Cry of Freedom yesterday. I have wanted to read The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho (by Ann Radcliffe) ever since I first read Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) many years ago. I reread NA several times but have never gotten around ...

... _SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg> 42. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock - finished 6/15/09 About 1/3 of the way through The Mysteries of Udolpho, the heroine sees something behind a curtain that causes her to faint. It is not until about a gazilion pages later, when the book has almost ...

... Abbey. I love it. Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice are my favorite works by Jane Austen. Eh, I read The Mysteries of Udolpho and wasn't too thrilled about it. At the very beginning the author goes on and on about the landscape for a couple of hundred pages. Once the plot ...

... the Romantic period in general, which has a lot of gothic qualities, and I like Edgar Allen Poe very much. I haven't read The Mysteries of Udolpho yet, but I definitely want to! Have you read Northanger Abbey? Austen is really poking fun at gothic novels through it.

... Northanger Abbey. I actually thought Northanger was a bit light on the Gothic satire, maybe because I had recently read The Mysteries of Udolpho which seemed like it would take a somewhat more concerted effort than can be snuck into a comedy of manners. Nightmare is really short, ...

Finished The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, starting The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.

The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe The Monk - Matthew Lewis The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner

Starting The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

Like the others, I'm not a live by the list or die kind of person, but I have five I NEED to finish soon- The Mysteries of Udolpho Howards End My name is Asher Lev Stone of Tears Valley of the Kings It's really cool to see what everyone is thinking about picking up next- great ...

... Northanger Abbey. I started reading Austen also after watching that movie with my wife. Seems like you enjoyed reading The Mysteries of Udolpho. I thought about that, too. I may do what you did when I get ready for Abbey. The Meg Gardiner book you have there is going to be in my next TB ...

Finished The Mysteries of Udolpho and really enjoyed it. Next book Cranford!

... for the Welcome!! I finished The Mysteries of Udolpho today and I have to say that I loved it. My sister and I both wanted to read it after Austen's reference to it in Northanger Abbey. It has taken ...

I am nearly finished reading The Mysteries of Udolpho this week and I have really enjoyed it! I love the idea of this group and will use it to keep me on track with my 50 books in 2009 target.

... tory.com/ezt/t/wKsoqoS/counter.png"> OKAY......so I am going to keep my list up here and add to it as I go..... 1. Mysteries of Udolpho By Anne Radcliffe 2. Cranford By Elizabeth Gaskell 3. Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert 4. Hope for the Flowers By Trina Paulus 5. The Pia ...

... even though I want to remain in that story forever! Austen is one that can do that for me! I have been meaning to read Mysteries of Udolpho since I read Northanger Abbey last year. I know it won't be the same since, as someone noted above, Austen is making fun a little, but why make fun ...

... y'all to throw rocks..but i had the money..and am sharing the damn thing with a friend...) The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Clarissa Harlowe... by Samuel Richardson ..see, i go for quality..or creepy...one... ;-p Jude

Yes, I read The Mysteries of Udolpho (because Jane Austen did). Who else has read A Dry White Season by Andre Brink?

Is this possible? I read Love Medicine ......Has anyone read The Mysteries of Udolpho? I did not see it on the list?

... is frequently mentioned as an infuence on authors I love (Charles Maturin for example). But I have not gotten to her yet. Mysteries of Udolpho sounds similar to Melmoth in form and style(A slow starter that pays off with big rewards later). I think I might have a copy around here somewhere. If ...

... me of Poe. His concentration on the description of landscape reminds me of Ann Radcliffe, especially her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. You really should read Radcliffe if you have not. She far surpasses the early progenitors of the Gothic both in thought and form. I would love ...

I wrote my master's thesis on a comparison of Austen's Northanger Abbey to Mrs. Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho. One of the points of this exercise was that Austen was writing about everyday life rather than fantastic and romantic adventures such as those written by Radcliffe and other ...

... not write a "life" (Clarissa, Pamela, etc.), a picaresque like Don Quixote, or a "romantic" (i.e. gothic) novel a la The Mysteries of Udolpho which were so popular at the time. Or maybe this particular professor was full of it.

I didn't realize that. I agree with you to a degree; working my way slowly through The Mysteries of Udolpho, I don't see a direct correlation with current 'zombie' novels. However, they were one of the most (if not the most) sensational, cutting edge books of the time. One thing I have personally ...

... on 19th-century Gothic fiction for my MA, and have been meaning to get back to it for awhile now. First on my list is The Mysteries of Udolphowhich I have (shamefully) never read before. I'm also a sucker for modern "horror" novels - especially vampire fiction. I look forward to the ...

... Love in Excess, 1719 Charlotte Lennox, Harriot Stuart, 1750 & The Female Quixote, 1752 Ann Radcliffe, including Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794 Frances Burney, Elvina, 1778, and others

... thread, and it does seem to be the overall consensus that it's not Austen's best. I liked it a lot better after reading The Mysteries of Udolpho and some of the other gothic fiction she was spoofing and actually found it quite amusing. But then again, my Austen tastes tend to go a little bit ...

... en* ... In response to all the Northanger Abbey talk, I didn't like it when I first read it, but now that I've read The Mysteries of Udolpho and other gothic fiction, I find it hilarious. IMO, It's Austen's funniest book. ... I'm currently reading Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wo ...

... 42. A Christmas Carol 43. Frankenstein 44. Persuasion 45. Pride and Prejudice 46. Sense and Sensibility 47. The Mysteries of Udolpho 48. The Vicar of Wakefield 49. Rasselas 50. A Modest Proposal 51. Gulliver's Travels 52. Moll Flanders

... by Madame de Lafayette 15 Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo 16 Camilla by Fanny Burney 17 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 18 Humphrey Clinker by Tobias George Smollett 19 Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood 20 Reveries of a Solitary Walk ...

... sort of quietly until the arrival of Ann Radcliffe who would achieve best-sellerdom and spawn countless imitators. The Mysteries of Udolpho, one of her more famous novels, features the character of Emily St. Aubert pitted against the ruthless machinations of Count Montoni, who appears ...

... Little Lady Agency this year- it's a long book, but easy to read and pick up the storyline if you get interrupted. The Mysteries of Udolpho will last you a month of Sundays- great gothic horror novel. :)

... The chapter on Lovecraft is interesting, but flawed in its approach. An intriguing if not always convincing work. 89. The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe's classic work of high gothic intrigue and melodrama. A fun story of a young, plucky heroine taken from her native land and held ...

... those gothic works, some of which are rather long. The collection was okay overall. The first three stories, Carmilla, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and The Oval Portrait seemed to be the strongest of the bunch, both in the adaptation and in matching the art to it. Carmilla's art has a nice ...

Last week, I managed to finish The Mysteries of Udolpho, which I enjoyed but was releaved to finally get through, and 'Salem's Lot, which I enjoyed--it never quite blazed for me the way I hoped it would, but it was a solid piece of fiction. I just finished El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss ...

... I suggest Austen's homage to the Gothics of her age, Northanger Abbey--it is a "hoot" and is the reason I want to include The Mysteries of Udolpho in my 999 series. I couldn't find it in print years ago when I read the Austen but I notice it is now available.

#127 hemlokgang: The Mysteries of Udolpho has been on Continent TBR since approximately the time that the book was written. I am definitely going to have to dig up a copy!

I finished up The Mysteries of Udolpho and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am listening to The Third Angel by Alice Hoffman and I am just about to start my Early Reviewer book, Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet.

#98 - The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe - What fun! A long (600+) book, but so much fun. Written in the late 1700s, this book is a sweeping gothic romance, with poetry, sweeping poetic landscapes, a thwarted love affair, evil step-uncles, secrets (some even kept from the reader but ...

Ah, good plan - you'll enjoy Northanger so much more if you have Otranto and Udolpho under your belt. :-)

... and Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Otranto would be fun, as staffordcastle points out, if you have wondered about it and Mysteries of Udolpho since reading Northanger Abbey. I've read some of Proulx's short stories and enjoyed them, but Shipping News seems to elicit either love or hate.

Thoroughly immersed in The Mysteries of Udolpho in France, and also pondering virginity On Chesil Beach.

55. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe - finished 11/19/08 I feel as if I should do a little dance. In part because I've closed out another category. Woo hoo! And also because I finally ...

Thank you for the suggestion CarlosMcRey :-) I will now plan to read Northanger Abbey and The Mysteries of Udolpho close together. I've just been looking at your 888 challenge thread - you've done very well and your comments and reviews are great.

... categories. I thought I'd offer a suggestion. Northanger Abbey plays off a lot of the older gothics, but especially The Mysteries of Udolpho, so I recommend reading it either after Udolpho or right before.

"No, no, I warrant not." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "Is he subject to fits?"

One foot is in 18th century France withThe Mysteries of Udolpho and one foot in 1920s Prague with The Trial by Franz Kafka.

... by Scott Sigler and will start listening to The Trial by Franz Kafka for an LT group read. I continue with The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

Oops, forgot to mention that this is my second category down. Yay! Now if I can only finish off The Mysteries of Udolpho, I'll have half my categories done. (I've been working on Udolpho for quite a while now.)

... for It, Needful Things and Storm of the Century.) Anyway, it has its moments. I'm hoping to finally finish The Mysteries of Udolpho, of which I only have about 170 pages left to read. It's been interesting, if a bit slow at times. I'm starting El Beso de la mujer araña (K ...

I am listening to Infected by Scott C. Sigler and reading The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

"Why all this terror, cried he in a tremulous voice." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "Were her remains never found?"

There is a group read of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe going on at: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=46863

... well-known authors. I am about to start listening to Infected by Scott Sigler, as well as continuing my read of The Mysteries of Udolpho which is long but worth it.

"Annette paused a moment, and then said, O, but to you, ma'amselle, to you I may tell it safely, I know." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "O, where was I?"

"This caprice is intolerable, said he, and shall not be indulged; here is no impropriety in this case." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "I wonder, ma'am, why they call this the double chamber?"

... darting his spear upon a man, who lay under the feet of the horse, and who held up one hand in a supplicating attitude." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "...what have you heard concerning that picture, which makes you so unwilling to stay when I bid you?"

"Oh, Holy Mary!" The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "The chateau is shut up then, still?"

I had a chance to read a big chunk of The Mysteries of Udolpho today and am now totally entranced with the melodrama of it. It is the most poetic, romantic era piece I have ever read. It is full of classic descriptions of dancing peasants who seem not to have a care in the world, of mysterious ...

"....he made me promise not to tell and I would not for the world disoblige him." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "Art thou in thy senses, Annette, ......or is this a trick to deceive me?"

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: EFFULGENCE: Definition: Radiant splendour, brilliance Example: In the effulgence of the dawning sun I walked through the forest. New thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/49427&newpost=1#lastmsg

Reading The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo and Pride and Prejudice for the millionth time. Currently reading Mysteries of Udolpho and then I'm moving onto The Hunchback of Notre-dame.

"O Mam'selle, I would not tell you for the world......". The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe " Yes, that is the turret, why, who are you that you go thither?"

One foot firmly planted in late 1700s England with The Mysteries of Udolpho, I dipped my toes in post Civil War Boston for a quick read of The Bostonians by Henry James and now have foot number two planted in France as I begin listening to Dangerous Liasons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos ...

... here: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/radcliffe/ann/italian/index.html She is most famous for her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) also set in Italy and it is the inspiration for Northanger Abbey.

... with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and am listening to The Bostonians by Henry James. I continue reading The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

"He was bounding forward, without waiting St. Aubert's reply, when the latter stopped him." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "Do you believe, monsieur, that we shall be permitted to revisit the earth, after we have quitted the body?"

#13 - I really liked Mysteries of Udolpho as well, despite all the fainting and poetry! I am reading Daniel Deronda by George Eliot and really enjoying it. I think I am coming to like Eliot even more than Austen.

... translation. Good luck on this one, it's a very large book right up there with War & Peace in length. I'm reading The Mysteries of Udolpho and it's wonderful.

... recollections subdued him, and he abruptly rose from his seat, and walked away to where no eye could observe his grief." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe "What light is yonder, sir?"

... mountain, and, as they reached the shady summit which he had pointed out, the whole party burst into an exclamation." The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

... Tattoo and I now airlift the other foot from Scotland to England (or should I drive?) and change time periods as I begin The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

I finished The Crow Road, which was surprisingly dull in my opinion, and I am about to start The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

Well, after having neglected it for a bit, I think it's time for me to get back to The Mysteries of Udolpho. Also, I want to finish up The Books of Blood, Vol. 1 and John Polidori's The Vampyre which I started in the last few days. And I've been listening to the audiobook of For Whom the Be ...

... for the life of me remember his name ~ you know, the one with the nice sister, not the flakey one) goes on and on about The Mysteries of Udolpho which I truly tried to read but just could not.

... and am glad I did. I also read Collins' The Moonstone, which I enjoyed more. But I couldn't, simply could NOT, finish The Mysteries of Udolpho. Talk about sloooooowwwww and boooorring. Whole CHAPTERS were devoted to scenery, and the fork in the eye alternative was looking really good by ...

Gothic Fiction: 1. The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield 2. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 4. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ...

... reading -- Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin Currently listening to -- Pride and Prejudice Books abandoned -- The Mysteries of Udolpho

... buy it if I don't get it. I'm reading Best New American Voices 2009, Final Harvest for Go Review That Book, and The Mysteries of Udolpho. I'm about 9 pages into that one, and it's really slow going. I want to read it someday, but just haven't been in the mood for it. I've also ...

Well, I just finished Carrie and Melmoth the Wanderer, both of which I enjoyed. I'm still working on The Mysteries of Udolpho and have now started The Etched City.

From BookMooch: The Reivers by William Faulkner The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe......... (All the way from Iran) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

I've got two LT group readings going: one is Carrie and the other is The Mysteries of Udolpho. Since it's October, I'm also concentrating on spooky stuff, so I'm reading Melmoth the Wanderer along with the two above. I'm finishing up The Weather Makers on audiobook, after which I'll ...

... it won't matter that I will be a late starter. For anyone that enjoys audio books, I checked the librivox catalogue and The Mysteries of Udolpho is a work in progress. I too am intrigued de_lunares - what is the R.I.P challenge? Sounds wonderful.

From the library today: Mysteries of Udolpho (I haven't decided about trying the group read for this) March by Geraldine Brooks and Best New American Voices 2009

So has anyone already started reading The Mysteries of Udolpho yet? And if you have how far along in the book are you and what do you think of it so far? beatles1964

Since it's October I'm going heavy on the Gothics this month. I'm reading The Mysteries of Udolpho and Melmoth the Wanderer. I'm also continuing with 20 años con Inodoro Pereyra and, on audiobook, The Weather Makers.

... my original feeling too when you said your copy is 674 pages long. I think I would prefer to read an unabridged version of The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. I would probably be missing out on an awful lot of what would be happening in the book and wouldn't be able to follow along ...

... copy I have is part of three novels in one book. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole goes from page 3 to page 116; The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe goes from page 119 to 294 and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen goes from page 297 to 543. Maybe my copy is abridged and I ...

... whoever gets elected president takes a real leadership position on decreasing our CO2 production. And I'm about to start The Mysteries of Udolpho. This will be an LT group read, so anyone interested should come check it out

Hello, welcome, to The Mysteries of Udolpho reading group. We'll be starting the book this week. I'll be looking through it today to suggest a reading schedule. Any suggestions regarding how to structure the reading are welcome.

... the Texts and a Select Biography and has three novels inside the book. It has The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole; The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. with an Introduction by Andrew Wright. So mrsradcliffe can we start reading The Myste ...

I just found Mysteries of Udolpho at the library book sale for less than $2! I've been looking for a copy for a while. It's on my long TBR list, but if a group discussion starts here, I'll try to keep up.

I was just wondering when we were going to start reading Mysteries of Udolpho. I haven't heard anything recently. beatles1964

Sounds fine to me.It should give me a little time to try and finish reading another book or two before we start reading Mysteries of Udolpho. Will we answer questions about the book like The Poisonwood Bible Group? beatles1964

OK, I´ll be setting up a Mysteries of Udolpho group in the next couple days and I figured we could start at the beginning of October. How does that sound?

Touchstones not working properly for The Italian.

#62 ZanKnits Were you the one who posted a few days ago about The Mysteries of Udolpho? and now The Castle of Otranto! Wow! Will you post reviews when you are finished? Those are two books I am really interested in because they are supposed to have been the beginning of the genre that ...

I'm planning to start Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho later this month and was wondering if anybody would be interested in doing a group read. If so, please post here or leave me a comment.

Double ditto on Mysteries of Udolpho. Maybe a group read candidate?

I envy you The Mysteries of Udolpho! I'm dying to find that one. When you read it I'd love to hear what you think about it.

... trips to the local used book stores today turned up a bounty: Perdido Street Station Trujillo Pet Food Nation The Mysteries of Udolpho The I Ching for Writers

... Domecq, both of which I'm mostly done with. Than for the coming week, I plan to read Cronica de una muerte anunciada, The Mysteries of Udolpho and finish The Unabridged Edgar Allen Poe.

... in White is probably the best gothic novel ever written. I did enjoy what has been labelled as the first gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, but I think Wilke Collins novel had a much greater impact on generations of writers of gothic novels. It is a joy to read.

... Through the Looking Glass War and Peace Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Age of Innocence The Time Machine The Mysteries of Udolpho But I have also read others for different categories: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde I'm sure my classics ...

A Suitable Boy is out in paperback and I highly recommend it. I enjoyed The Mysteries of Udolpho last summer as one of those long novels.

... Glass 4. War and Peace 5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6. The Age of Innocence 7. The Time Machine 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho Extra Credit 9. Ethan Frome

... Glass 4. War and Peace 5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6. The Age of Innocence 7. The Time Machine 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho I'm excited to start seeing some progress and be over the halfway point. Now I can start adding to my classics. I'm finishing up Eclipse ...

#37. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe Why I Chose It: Not only is it on the 1,001 Books list but also referenced in The Jane Austen Book Club and I wanted to understand more fully what the references meant and how they applied. Udolpho is this mysterious castle hidden away from ...

#117 Foucault's pendulum is brillinat, I have the name of the rose waiting for me on my tbr shelf! I love the mysteries of udolpho very much, despite the dodgy poetry! I'm currently reading brick lane which is wonderful in its balance of tragedy with comedy. Although I think it's all ...

... Challenge. I didn't think it was as great as the first one, but still good. Started Eclipse and nearly finished with The Mysteries of Udolpho.

... / 50 books. 72% done! Currently Reading: The Mysteries of Udolpho Eclipse The Rum Diary

... taken a while, not because it's a lousy book or anything...but i have been busy with my house.... #38- i love The Mysteries of Udolpho...read it many years ago in my Gothic phase...back in the 60s...as for Finnegan's Wake..a lot of whiskey helps with the understanding...though ...

I'm reading three books - each differently. I'm reading The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe start to finish. It's a gothic classic from 1794 and very escapist and quaint, like taking acid and staring at an antique teapot, until you meld into the decorative, bucolic imagery and start ...

... can't wait to get through the series so I can move onto something that doesn't involve vampires. Also continuing through The Mysteries of Udolpho. It's getting better with every chapter.

... / 50 books. 70% done! Currently Reading: the Mysteries of Udolpho New Moon The Rum Diary

... / 50 books. 70% done! Currently Reading: the Mysteries of Udolpho New Moon The Rum Diary

Finished up The Jane Austen Book Club. Very good. My little review is posted. Continuing through The Mysteries of Udolpho and joined the craze and started Twilight.

... / 50 books. 68% done! Currently Reading: The Mysteries of Udolpho Twilight The Rum Diary

#197 the mysteries of Udolpho is such a great book - stick with it! She can be hard going at times, and I have to say I skip a lot of her faux idyllic pastoral songs/poems, but she must have influenced me as I wrote my dissertation about this novel and even named my LT name after her! If can get ...

I'm been reading The Mysteries of Udolpho for quite some time and now it's starting to get a little more interesting. Hopefully I will come to understand the meaning behind the title. Also, The Jane Austen Book Club which is quite similar to the film and very good and interesting.

... et) The Friday Night Knitting Club Twilight New Moon Eclipse I'm finishing up The Jane Austen Book Club and Mysteries of Udolpho currently so once one is finished I will start with another one.

I started the Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. It's a lot longer than I thought it was. Almost through Volume 1.

... can't start a series and not finish. It bugs me. Until next time. I'm currently reading The Jane Austen Book Club and The Mysteries of Udolpho.

... / 50 books. 66% done! Currently Reading: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Jane Austen Book Club

... The Bad Beginning - finished July 5 (YA/Children) Currently working on: The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration The Mysteries of Udolpho On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

... Events: The Bad Beginning - finished July 5 Currently working on: The Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration The Mysteries of Udolpho On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

... Quick and easy, but only the beginning of the series of books. Not much thought required. Currently Reading: The Mysteries of Udolpho On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God Pocket Muse: Endless Inspiration blondierocket in What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list? (Jun 24, 2008, 4:59pm)

Currently working through: Cavedweller Mysteries of Udolpho Loverboy Next up: 7th Heaven Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Twilight This is what I'm planning on reading. Whether or not something else jumps out between now and then is a different story.

... some good progress now. I need to get started on my classics now. Still working on Cavedweller and just started The Mysteries of Udolpho.

... / 50 books. 54% done! Currently Reading: Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

... which suggests the reason the novels petered out after 1820 is that the success of Ann Radcliffe's novels (such as The Mysteries of Udolpho) resulted in a profusion of imitators flooding the marketplace with copycat works, which tended to recycle many of the same elements in similar ...

Just finished The Mysteries of Udolpho and am now reading two other books from the list - Silk by Alessandro Baricco and The Emigrants by WG Sebald

I just started The Mysteries of Udolpho which I've been meaning to read for a while, mostly because it's always being referenced in other books.

... I thought it was good to have the voice overs of the text, because most modern audiences would not get the allusion to the Mysteries of Udolpho or The Monk. It gives the audience a clue into what the characters are talking about with such great passion. Davies may have messed up A Room ...

... as I'd come to some kind of peace over the size of my TBR list! I'm afraid it's probably either The Female Quixote or The Mysteries of Udolpho (and when I say 'old' I don't mean they're originals). I bought them both full of good intentions when I was having one of my 19thC phases but I ...

18th- & 19th-century novel A: The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe *read* M: Moby Dick, Herman Melville J: Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky J: The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins A: Justine, Marquis de Sade S: ...

II. Partially read books as of December 31, 2007 The wreath The mysteries of Udolpho Moby Dick The linguistics wars House of leaves The stories of English The way we live now I married a Communist Of human bondage Modern philosophy: an ...

I'm already doing the 50 Book Challenge and seem to be cruising along, so I figured trying to add a few more books can't be too difficult. I. Classics 1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2. Jane Eyre 3. Orlando 4. Turn of the Screw 5. Gulliver's Travels 6. Frankenstein 7 ...

... on the early Gothic novel. My favorites are definitely Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, and MG Lewis's The Monk. Of course, there are what I consider the offshoots of Gothic (Bronte, Conan Doyle, Poe, etc.) but ...

After Udolpho, I suggest you try The Monk by MG (Matthew Gregory) Lewis. The "important early Gothic novels" (says the canon) are Horace Walpole's Otranto, Radcliffe's Udolpho, and Lewis's The Monk. Each takes an interesting new step with the genre. Walpole supposedly ...

#135 ktleyed - I really liked Northanger Abbey too. Now you have to go read Mysteries of Udolpho! I am still reading The Sunne in Splendor which I am loving as expected. This novel is ripe for the picking for some sort of HBO or BBC series -- it would be such a blockbuster considering ...

Gave up on The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. All the long, drawn-out descriptions, narratives, and melodrama were just too tedious. Right after, I started Castle Rackrent, which was written even before Mrs. Radcliffe's novel, and which I found much easier to read.

... READS Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad The Book Thief - Markus Zusak The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield Great Expectations - Charles Dickens M ...

... funny because I remember reading Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey for the first time years ago and being intrigued by The Mysteries of Udolpho that the girls kept reading and talking about throughout the book. After I finished Northanger Abbey, I went to my university's library to check ...

... feisty feminist strong bodies that conduct themselves in ways they would not be able to in times of peace and harmony. Give ann radcliffe a try for example.

... I just might like my prose purple? Or at least heavy, ornate and unnatural? People were mentioning Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho over on another thread... now that prose was tough-going! I do think Carey's style smoothed out a bit as the series continued. Maybe she got it all ...

I loved Mysteries of Udolpho! While long her descriptions of the mountains, lightening storms, the castle were awesome. Definately an overabundance of fainting and poetry -- but I thought the story itself was good. I am a sucker for the gothic romance/mystery though -- like Rebecca and The T ...

... book (I just read P&P for the first time last year, and I have Northanger Abbey on my TBR list, just as soon as I finish The Mysteries of Udolpho), the character of Anne did not seem so much quiet and sensible as slow and stupid. There were so many times I wanted to shout at her, "Well, say ...

Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe--ages ago... Yes, lots of description of "sublime" landscape. Not easy prose to read. But interesting to experience since Radcliffe is cited so often.

... up into lists: I Gothic Classics 1 Castle of Otranto 2 Vathek 3 Mysteries of Udolpho 4 The Monk 5 Melmoth the Wanderer 6 The House of the Seven Gables 7 Wuthe ...

... Babel The novel, volume 1 2: Partially read books as of December 31, 2007 The wreath The mysteries of Udolpho Moby Dick The linguistics wars House of leaves The stories of English The way we live now I married ...

... it's downright hilarious! Northanger Abbey is a wonderful example of this. Read it in conjunction with Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and you will see Austen's biting wit. It's brilliant. And Austen's characters... It's sometimes scary how much they resemble people I know. P ...

anyway at the moment I am reading The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe which is REALLY good.

... Glass Darkly Maldoror The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Melmoth the Wanderer The Monk The Mysteries of Udolpho (as mrsradcliffe suggested) The Castle of Otranto

... ago I began to read and reread all the other books, and am just now getting to Austen's "gothic" novella. Helpfully, I read The Mysteries of Udolpho about a year ago, so I was able to recognize a lot of the allusions Austen uses for parodic effect. One other thing I found unusual about the ...

... Roche 6. Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath 7. The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe 9. The Italian 1797) by Ann Radcliffe Has anyone here read any of them? What did you think of them and which ...

... Roche 6. Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath 7. The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe 9. The Italian 1797) by Ann Radcliffe Has anyone here read any of them? What did you think of them and which ...

... coffman, Lady of Mallow, Granite Folly, and Falconridge by Edwina Marlow. I am still on the lookout for The Mysteries of Udolpho.

... work. There are much allusives on Fanny Burney's Camilla, Evelina and Cecilia, as much as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and much other works, which are forgotten today. With that knowledge you can just laugh about every page of Northa ...

I didn't care very much for NA when I first read it, but when I went and read Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and then reread NA, I was laughing the whole way through it. Austen was so devastatingly clever, and I love her for seeing through the hyped-up silliness of the over-the-top Gothi ...

#6 - there are a few novels mentioned but I think the one you talking about is The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. If I remember correctly Caroline expects to find a skeleton? edited for errors in punctuation

I now own both Dracula and Frankenstein, and am going to read them as soon as possible. And I hope to get hold of The Mysteries of Udolpho sometime soon.

... now determined to read all the "horrid books" mentioned by the characters in that book and am planning on getting hold of The Mysteries of Udolpho very soon... ... I think I'm going to like it here!

I definately recommend The Mysteries of Udolpho -- there is alot of poetry and fainting and descriptions of the landscape (which are beautiful, but long) -- but it is a very engrossing and satisfying mystery -- they call Emily St. Aubert the first female sleuth.

I just looked up The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe online. It looks fascinating. I am quite determined to get it. I like the style.

Northanger Abbey by jane Austen mentions several books throughout it: The Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe The Italian by Anne Radcliffe Clermont by Regina Maria Roche Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons Mysterious Warnings by Eliza Parsons Necrom ...

... 1605) Wilkie Collins - Moonstone (1868) Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) Anne Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) * This one was technically published in 1902, but is set during 1889, so I'm splitting the difference.

... writing style is the same in that book as it is in the Saladin one. However- I do like the Saladin one :-) I'm reading The Mysteries of Udolpho VERY slowly with a group- I'm only about 70 pages in now. However, I am finding it much the way you are finding The Italian. Interesting, but ...

... and A Sultan in Palermo. Do you like his writing style? Also, I see you are reading Ann Radcliffe; do you enjoy The mysteries of Udolpho? I am still reading The Italian, which I find amusing, although a bit 'laborious' to follow because of the 18th century language. Still worth ...

... and his scribe, in The Book of Saladin by Tariq Ali. I'm also in a Gothic European castle with Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho.

... by Ian McEwan -- My first book by him. I loved the novel within the novel and the 'unreliable narrator' 5. Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe -- I only read this because of its mention in Austen's Northanger Abbey but its great once you get past the fainting and the ...

... to him, but that's no weak point in my opinion. I'm currently burdening myself with a perusal of Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho as additional reading as part of a study of Jane Austen for college. If, some time in the future, I get a spare minute, The Accidental by Ali ...

... I'll have to look for Zofloya, too. I did read several early Gothics, including The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. I may reread the Radcliffe, but I don't think I want to wade through Otranto again! silverwraith, Uncle Silas ...

... in my head :-) Another book on my wish list, mostly because the Gothic theme was so resonant during this time period, is The Mysteries of Udolpho, though I admit that I've never purchased it because I don't know if I'd even find it an enjoyable read. I just want to have read it!