Ann Ward Radcliffe

A Sicilian Romance Ann Ward Radcliffe

WHAT A SICILIAN ROMANCE!


A classic gothic novel written by Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance concerns a young woman named Julia, a beautiful and an accomplished young lady who, upon being pressured into an arranged marriage by her tyrannical father, the Marquis of Mezzini, flees with a young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza to a convent to escape. Meanwhile, odd noises and sudden movements in her family castle draw worries from the servants, who believe the castle to be haunted.


The narrative explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy.


Ann Radcliffe managed to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that makes her one of the great exemplar of the Gothic novel of all-time!