Edited with introduction and notes by Jacqueline Howard. When beautiful Emily St Aubert loses her parents and her happy rural home, she is forced to live with her aunt and her aunt's sinister husband. Signore Montoni married her aunt to steal her fortune, and now he can take Emily's as well. He imprisons them in a gloomy medieval castle in Udolpho, manned by his evil accomplices. Will the lady ever escape this wretched world of hazy evenings, dark forests, massy walls, gloomy rooms, and constant dread, to be reunited with her true love Valancourt? First published in 1794, this wildly popular novel maintains its allure today, and remains famous for its own sake, not just for its importance to the plot of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Penguin Classics. 2001. Paper. NEW. $14.00