A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World’s Classics)
September 17, 2019 - Comment
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Makes me think of a Baroque version of a Famous Five story. Rating this book with stars is nonsense. I think you either like the style, or you don’t. I read A Sicilian Romance for a taste of what a Gothic novel is like.Famous Five? The novel features dark characters skulking around abandoned parts of the castle at night, underground passages, caverns and locked rooms one of which contains … a prisoner.Baroque? The style of writing e.g. `The count, who trembled at the dangers which environed her, and at the probab- ilities he saw of…
Gothic Excess I so enjoyed reading this work which just typified Gothic excess at its very best. What we have here is the story of Julia and Emelia and their brother Ferdinand, children of the autocratic Marquis Mazzini who is every bit as diabolic a villain as Radcliffe’s more famous Count Montoni. The children are motherless and live in a castle (in the same sublime species of landscape as Udolpho) which has an entire ruined southern hall which is reputed to be haunted. Of course, this is Radcliffe, so…
Superb A thoroughly enjoyable read and so much easier, and shorter, than the Mysteries of Udolpho. Delightful language of the day.