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The blurb already spoilered me on the 'real ghost' in this one - unusual for Radcliffe, who generally preferred the Pesky Meddling Kids approach - so I assume this mysterious person in the contemporary-era Introduction is he:
'I saw you was a stranger, Sir, and thought you might like to know a little about the castle here; and, unless you hap to light on such a one as me, you may go away as wise as you came[.]'
— Dec 12, 2012 02:00AM
'I saw you was a stranger, Sir, and thought you might like to know a little about the castle here; and, unless you hap to light on such a one as me, you may go away as wise as you came[.]'
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Bri Fidelity
is on page 142 of 257
The novel - as usual - springs into life about halfway through the narrative proper, during the Fifth Day and Night (instead of Chapters, the book is broken down into Days: hilariously, either Ann or her editor lost count and there are two Third Days; I hope she's not going for a Genesis metaphor or something), with the inclusion of reliable Radcliffe tropes a) the Sinister Holy Man and b) the Tense Escape.
— Dec 19, 2012 11:14AM
Bri Fidelity
is on page 64 of 257
I think all survivors of Udolpho have an (earned) instinctive dread of Ann Radcliffe's poetry. But this 12-and-a-half page rhyming narrative - look upon it, ye Udolphiles, and tremble - is actually pretty good, I think.
That, or, you know. Stockholm Syndrome.
— Dec 15, 2012 10:49PM
That, or, you know. Stockholm Syndrome.
Bri Fidelity
is on page 52 of 257
'O'er the lone mountains riding, / From a distant land he came, / No step his dark step guiding; / But he thought he saw a flame, / That bright, or dim, would sport awhile; / Then vanish, as in very guile; / He heard, as he passed, the witch-name sound; / And his startled steed, at a single bound, / Bore him away from that evil ground.'
— Dec 14, 2012 09:54AM
Bri Fidelity
is on page 30 of 257
Okay, Ann: I get that you're trying something new with this cod-medieval prose business, and I respect it. But if you don't tone it down a bit with the archaicisms ('ychon'!) and the abbreviated wording (try saying 'embroidered' instead of ''broidered'; 'behaviour' instead of ''haviour'; you know the stuff) you're going to lose me. And then, trust me, this Boke of yon is headed verily down ye privie.
— Dec 13, 2012 09:43AM
Bri Fidelity
is on page 15 of 257
Wait; no; the funny old man is one of Anne's standard Simpleton Servants, and the main body of the story - including this ghost - will actually be coming from the ancient manuscript he found in the ruins at Kenilworth. GOTHIC LITERATURE, I LOVE YOU SO.
— Dec 12, 2012 02:15AM