"La forêt, ou l'abbaye de Saint-Clair (tome 3/3)" by Ann Ward Radcliffe is a Gothic novel published in 1791. When Pierre de la Motte and his wife flee Paris to escape creditors, they are captured by bandits who force them to take a mysterious young orphan named Adeline into their care. The trio seeks refuge in a ruined abbey deep within a dark forest, where romantic entanglements and hidden secrets begin to unfold amid the melancholic wilderness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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