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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
My Name is Red - ... ... 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. And breaking it 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 Wuthering heights
8 Ca ... ... 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!
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