Radcliffe, Ann Ward
"The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry. by Radcliffe" is a Gothic novel published in 1791. When the fleeing La Motte family encounters a mysterious stranger who forces them to take a young woman named Adeline, they seek refuge in a ruined abbey deep in the forest. As secrets emerge—including a skeleton, a sinister manuscript, and the dangerous attention of the abbey's owner, the Marquis—Adeline finds herself trapped in a web of deception and growing peril. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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