Orphaned Emily St. Aubert, imprisoned in a brooding Apennine castle by her aunt's sinister husband, confronts terrors that reason will explain.
Books mentioned in The Mysteries of Udolpho (13)
The Minstrel by James Beattie: “And love, and gentleness, and joy, impart. THE MINSTREL”
Macbeth by William Shakespeare: “Without our special wonder? MACBETH”
The Castle of Indolence by James Thomson: “Then all at once in air dissolves the wondrous show. CASTLE OF INDOLENCE”
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: “And see our moon-light revels, go with us. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “While they behold a greater than themselves. JULIUS CAESAR”
Ode to Fear by William Collins: “Hold each strange tale devoutly true. COLLINS' ODE TO FEAR”
King John by William Shakespeare: “Does shew the mood of a much-troubled breast. KING JOHN”
Il Penseroso by John Milton: “Her mansion in this fleshly nook! IL PENSEROSO”
Richard II by William Shakespeare: “To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken. RICHARD II”
Sacred Dramas by Hannah More: “And all is lovely! SACRED DRAMAS”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “Come, weep with me;--past hope, past cure, past help! ROMEO AND JULIET”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “I will speak to thee. HAMLET”
Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers: “Each stamps its image as the other flies! PLEASURES OF MEMORY”
Books that mention The Mysteries of Udolpho (3)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: “It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho.”
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: “Was there a “secret” at Bly—a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?”
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne: “"An admirable landscape for the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'!" exclaimed the doctor. "Ann Radcliffe could not have depicted yon mountains in a more”