The Italian, 3rd Edition, 9780198704430
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Love, betrayal, kidnapping, and the sinister Inquisition await in Radcliffe’s chilling tale.

The Italian, 3rd Edition

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    5 April 2017

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Summary

The Italian: A Gothic Tale of Terror and Intrigue

‘Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.’ Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presence dominates a gripping tale of love and betrayal, abduction and assassination, and incarceration in the dr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198704430
ISBN-10:0198704437
Series:Oxford World's Classics
Author:Ann Radcliffe, Nick Groom
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Edition:3rd
Release Date:5 April 2017
Weight:346g
Dimensions:195mm x 147mm x 23mm
About The Author

Ann Radcliffe

Edited by Nick Groom, University of Exeter.

Nick Groom has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, with particular interest in questions of authenticity and the emergence of national and regional identity. His books include The Gothic (2012) for the Very Short Introductions series, The Union Jack: the Story of the British Flag (Atlantic, 2006), and The Seasons: an Elegy for the Passing of the Year (Atlantic, 2013). For Oxford World’s Classics he has edited Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk.

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