The Italian

Name: The Italian
Author: Ann Radcliffe

by Ann Radcliffe

Gothic novel set in Italian monastery with dark secrets, villainy, and mysterious parentage

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Ann Radcliffe

Radcliffe almost single-handedly created the Gothic novel of terror, combining sublime landscape description with plots of menace, mystery, and female persecution. Her explained supernatural and atmospheric prose shaped the Gothic tradition for generations.

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