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Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe, Fiction, Action & Adventure
Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe, Fiction, Action & Adventure | Ann Ward Radcliffe
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Years ago, when Young Earl Osbert of Castle Athlin was a boy, his father was ambused and slain by Baron Malcolm of Dunbayne. Now Osbert has come into his majority, and in the company of a sturdy and heroic young peasant named Alleyn he's gone to avenge his father's murder. What waits for them at the castle of Dunbayne is not vengeance but a fate that neither one of them imagines: not just conquest or defeat, but a terrible challenge -- and the romance of a lifetime.
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Mehso-so

(1789) Radcliffe's first novel is a short one, and focuses on a clan rivalry in the Scottish Highlands. There's little hint of the supernatural here, but there are settings in old castles with secret passageways, and a sensational plot involving treachery, revenge, and a lost heir. It's a lot of a much of plenty, but fun in its way. I ear-read the Librivox version, which is read very well by Lauren Randall.

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Finished walking in the Antarctica with the Shackleton's expedition... Now for something gothic and classic.

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