"Zofloya, ou le Maure, Histoire du XVe siècle" by Charlotte Dacre is a Gothic novel published in 1806. Set in fifteenth-century Venice, it follows Victoria di Loredani, whose privileged life collapses after her mother's scandalous elopement and her father's murder. Beautiful and increasingly corrupted by desire, Victoria becomes entangled with the mysterious Moorish servant Zofloya, who promises to fulfill her darkest wishes. Their alliance leads Victoria down a path of poison, manipulation, and obsession that challenges conventional Gothic heroines. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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