{"product_id":"the-italian-paperback-1","title":"The Italian - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnn Radcliffe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNick Groom\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFather 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 dreadful dungeons of the Inquisition. Uncertainty and doubt lie everywhere, in Radcliffe's last and most unnerving novel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnn Radcliffe defined the \"terror\" genre of writing and helped to establish the Gothic novel, thrilling readers with her mysterious plots and eerie effects. In \u003cem\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/em\u003e she rejects the rational certainties of the Enlightenment for a more ambiguous and unsettling account of what it is to be an individual - particularly a woman - in a culture haunted by history and dominated by institutional power. This new edition includes Radcliffe's important essay \"On the Supernatural in Poetry,\" in which she distinguishes terror writing from horror.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Groom\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Gothic\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) for the Very Short Introductions series, \u003cem\u003eThe Union Jack: the Story of the British Flag\u003c\/em\u003e (Atlantic, 2006), and \u003cem\u003eThe Seasons: an Elegy for the Passing of the Year\u003c\/em\u003e (Atlantic, 2013). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Walpole's \u003cem\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/em\u003e and Matthew Lewis's \u003cem\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810651304243,"sku":"9780198704430","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/lKa7nM0zVv9780198704430.webp?v=1764921443","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-italian-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}