A Sicilian Romance

A gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, an English author of the 18th-19th centuries, which gained popular success. It is one of the six novels that form the basis of her literary heritage. The plot is usually centered around a young, beautiful, ingenuous woman, who is forced to endure awful sufferings, but eventually reunited with her beloved. Her mystery technique, plot motives and methods of description influenced, considerably, the European literature of the first part of the nineteenth century and