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The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry.

by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1764–1823)

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  • 26 chapters
  • Reading level: 8th & 9th grade

"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.

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  • Gothic fiction

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Chapter I

I am a man,
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid ou't.

When once sordid interest seizes on the heart, it freezes up the source of every warm and liberal feeling; it is an enemy alike to virtue and to taste—this it perverts, and that it annihilates. The time may come, my friend, when death shall dissolve the sinews of avarice, and justice be permitted to resume her rights.

Such were the words of the Advocate Nemours to Pierre de la Motte, as the latter stept at midnight into the carriage which was to bear him far from Paris, from his creditors and the persecution of the laws. De la Motte thanked him for this last instance of his kindness; the assistance he had given him in escape; and, when the carriage drove away, uttered a sad adieu! The gloom of the hour, and the peculiar emergency of his circumstances, sunk him in silent reverie.

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Contents

Show all 26 chapters
  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V: A Surprise — An Adventure — A Mystery
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter XIII
  14. Chapter XIV
  15. Chapter XV
  16. Chapter XVI
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII
  19. Chapter XIX
  20. Chapter XX
  21. Chapter XXI
  22. Chapter XXII
  23. Chapter XXIII
  24. Chapter XXIV
  25. Chapter XXV
  26. Chapter XXVI: Last came Joy's ecstatic trial: —

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This free edition of The Romance of the Forest, interspersed with some pieces of poetry. by Ann Ward Radcliffe comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #64701, released 2021-03-05. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Historical Novels, Romance, Crime, Thrillers and Mystery, Novels, British Literature.

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