The Romance of the Forest

Author: Ann Radcliffe

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Title: The Romance of the Forest

Author: Ann Radcliffe

Description: Radcliffe traps her heroine in a ruined abbey with a manuscript that names a murder. The novel that made her the most imitated writer of the 1790s.

Pages: 276

Size: 1.84 MB

Format: PDF

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