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A Sicilian Romance

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Chapter 01
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Chapter 02
50:40
Chapter 03
73:56
Chapter 04
41:39
Chapter 05
16:04
Chapter 06
19:14
Chapter 07
8:32
Chapter 08
18:34
Chapter 09
20:11
Chapter 10
20:59
Chapter 11
25:31
Chapter 12
21:09
Chapter 13
27:52
Chapter 14
29:57
Chapter 15
22:33
Chapter 16
10:14

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Ann Radcliffe's second novel set the template for the terror that would grip English fiction for a generation. On the coast of sixteenth-century Sicily, the Mazzini family guards a crumbling castle and a buried secret. Julia, the marquis's daughter, is promised in marriage to a man she cannot love, and her flight from that fate leads her through hidden passages, sealed apartments, and rumors of a ghost walking the abandoned southern wing. Radcliffe builds her dread from atmosphere rather than gore, and every apparent haunting turns out to have an earthly cause. The book helped fix the shape of the Gothic that she would later perfect in Udolpho, and it still reads as a brisk chase through fear and family betrayal. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was an English novelist whose Gothic romances, among them The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian, made her the most popular and best paid writer of the 1790s. She perfected the technique of the explained supernatural, which shaped later horror and mystery fiction.

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