id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8178 The Mysteries of Udolpho - Wikipedia .html text/html 2588 257 73 The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry Title page from first edition Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho tells of Emily St. Aubert, who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and machinations of an Italian brigand. Modern editors note that only about a third of the novel is set in the eponymous Gothic castle,[2] while tone and style vary markedly between sections of the work, to which Radcliffe added extended descriptions of exotic landscapes in the Pyrenees and Apennines, and of Venice, none of which she had visited.[2] For details she relied on travel books, which led her to make several anachronisms. The novel, set in 1584 in southern France and northern Italy, explores the plight of Emily St. Aubert, a young French woman orphaned by the death of her father. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8178.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8178.txt