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A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe

A Sicilian Romance is an early novel by one of the masters of Gothic fiction, Ann Radcliffe. Two young women live in an isolated mansion near the Straits of Messina. Mysterious sights and sounds begin haunting a neglected wing of the house, and their quest to discover the truth behind these mysteries leads them through the labyrinthine landscape of Sicily and into the darkest secrets of its aristoracy.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: Dec 30th, 2017
  • Pages: 174
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.02in - 5.98in - 0.37in - 0.53lb
  • EAN: 9781979941822
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies

About the Author

Ann Radcliffe (née Ward, 9 July 1764 - 7 February 1823) was an English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel. Radcliffe's technique of explaining the supernatural elements of her novels has been credited with enabling Gothic fiction to achieve respectability in the 1790s.