Shades of Grey
“No, it wasn’t really, but ‘hot and humid afternoon’ didn’t have the same ring to it. And once Dulcie had the apartment to herself again, she grabbed a book and threw herself on to the sofa, ready to return to her favorite haunts. It was dark and stormy in the mountains of Italy, at least.
The Ravages of Umbria might not be great art; most scholars didn’t even consider it in the same league as The Castle of Otranto, and that popular thriller had been ridiculed as trash even in 1764, when it was ...first published. Dulcie didn’t care.
Although only sixty pages of The Ravages remained, the surviving fragments told of an impoverished young noblewoman, an orphan, who lived alone in a ruined castle with only the company of her faithful attendant. The castle was set high on a rocky peak, the likes of which didn’t exist in that particular area of Italy, but the ‘daunted cliffs’ made for a good plot device, keeping both the heroine’s high-born suitor and a stout-hearted young knight errant from having too easy access.MoreLess
The Ravages of Umbria might not be great art; most scholars didn’t even consider it in the same league as The Castle of Otranto, and that popular thriller had been ridiculed as trash even in 1764, when it was ...first published. Dulcie didn’t care.
Although only sixty pages of The Ravages remained, the surviving fragments told of an impoverished young noblewoman, an orphan, who lived alone in a ruined castle with only the company of her faithful attendant. The castle was set high on a rocky peak, the likes of which didn’t exist in that particular area of Italy, but the ‘daunted cliffs’ made for a good plot device, keeping both the heroine’s high-born suitor and a stout-hearted young knight errant from having too easy access.MoreLess
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