MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (OXFORD WORLDS CLASSICS)

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Reflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which orphaned heroine Emily St. Aubuert finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisons her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration in this exemplary Gothic novel.