Publication

1968-02-01 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

110,500 words, Guess

Page Count

442 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100192553151
  • ISBN-139780192553157
  • Goodreads3219893
  • Library of Congress Control Number68084437
  • OCLC Control Number383419
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR5202 .I83 1968
  • LCCPZ3.R116 I5

Description

The story is rather simple in the beginning. It tells of a romantic love of young dashing nobleman Vivaldi in Naples, who falls in love with a girl Ellena. But his plan of marriage is soon interrupted by the vicious monk Schedoni. Then ensue abduction, murder (attempted or not), and the Inquisition. There are lot of suspense, terror, and thrill that come from the fluent narrative of Radcliffe... --Tsuyoshi at Amazon.com.

First Sentence

About the year 1764, some English travellers in Italy, during one of their excursions in the environs of Naples, happened to stop before the portico of the Santa Maria del Pianto, a church belonging to a very ancient convent of the order of the Black Penitents.

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