A Sicilian Romance

A SICILIAN ROMANCE

ANN RADCLIFFE

A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe

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by Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

A Sicilian Romance is Ann Radcliffe’s second
published work, and was first published anonymously
in 1790. The plot concerns the turbulent history of the
fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini, on the
northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who
becomes intrigued by the stories of a monk he meets in
the ruins of their doomed castle.

The introduction to the 'Worlds Classics’ edition notes that in this novel
"Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror
and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic
novel, and the idol of the Romantics". The novel explores the "cavernous
landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to
reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy" (Wikipedia)

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