Pros: It's long. Meaning the pleasure isn't over too quickly. Also: suspenseful, rich, and sensible. Cons: It's long. Sometimes obnoxiously so. Exposition tends to drag on. Plot and prose are shaky.
The Mysteries of Udolpho is one of my favorite books, and if it wasn't for its length, I probably would have read and reread the things at least a dozen times. With the Castle of Otranto it is probably the novel most universally associated ...
A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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