2016, ISBN: 1537053876

[EAN: 9781537053875], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- … mais…

[EAN: 9781537053875], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Italian is a story of two young people who conceive a deep and abiding love for each other on the strength of a very brief acquaintance, largely consisting of longing for each other from afar after a brief initial meeting and subsequently spending a few boating trips together, chaperoned by suitably respectable relatives. The boy is from a noble and proud family; the girl, apparently, is from far more humble stock. His parents, hearing scandalous rumours about goings-on between the two, forbid the union. The boy's mother goes a step further and, prompted by her Confessor, an ambitious and sinister monk, has the girl kidnapped and sent to a convent. The boy tracks his girlfriend down and they escape, only to be captured again. The Italian is a fast-paced read, with a lot happening in the first few chapters: love at first sight, warnings in the night, a family in turmoil, a kidnapping, a death, and mysterious characters lurking about. Not to mention quick travels through the Italian landscape. This is a complexly plotted Romance about two chaste and naïve teens who fall madly in love with each other at first glance but then have their parade rained on by the boy's mean-spirited mother and her minion, Schedoni, the conniving and ghoulish monk who chomps apart every scene he skulks through. Schedoni steals the show, as really masterful villains sometimes do. He's the most deceitful, deceiving, cynical, least favorable character, but at the same time the most complex. Schedoni is "the Italian" referenced in the title.<

ISBN: 9781537053875

The haughty, manipulative Marchesa, determined to thwart the romance between her son, the young Neapolitan nobleman Vincentio di Vivaldi, and Elena di Rosalba, has enlisted the help of th… mais…

The haughty, manipulative Marchesa, determined to thwart the romance between her son, the young Neapolitan nobleman Vincentio di Vivaldi, and Elena di Rosalba, has enlisted the help of the villainous, scheming monk, Schedoni. With a livid paleness of face and a melancholy eye, whose brooding presence dominates the novel, Schedoni has become an archetype of Romantic literature. Set in the mid-eighteenth century against the dramatic, lush backdrop of the Bay of Naples, The Italian is a tale of passion, deceit, abduction, and the horrors of the Inquisition.In one of the most powerful Gothic tales ever written, Mrs. Radcliffe, the unrivalled master of the genre, skillfully combines traditional elements of danger, romance, and the supernatural with her abiding interest in history and considerable ability to paint poetic images of sublime landscape. In the introduction, Robert Miles examines the novel's literary and historical context. An ingenious performance. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Author Bio: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), the leading writer of her time of Gothic fiction, published five novels in her lifetime, including The Mysteries of Udolfo (1794). Robert Miles teaches English at Sheffield Hallam University. He is president of the International Gothic Association and editor-in-chief of the journal Gothic Studies. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Romance>Contemporary Romance>Contemporary Romance, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

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Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking wh… mais…

Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel. Ann Radcliffe defined the terror genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with her mysterious plots and eerie effects. In The Italian she rejects the rational certainties of the Enlightenment for a more ambiguous and unsettling account of what it is to be an individual - particularly a woman - in a culture haunted by history and dominated by institutional power. This new edition includes Radcliffe's important essay On the Supernatural in Poetry, in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Romance>Contemporary Romance>Contemporary Romance, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

2016, ISBN: 1537053876

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[EAN: 9781537053875], New book, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000<

2016, ISBN: 1537053876

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