num_pages: 280
description: This is the first edition in nearly 200 years of an unduly neglected work, originally published in 1806, by an unconventional woman writer. A Gothic tale of lust, betrayal and multiple murder set in fifteenth-century Venice, the novel's most daring aspect is its anatomy of the centralcharacter, Victoria's, intense sexual attraction to her Moorish servant Zofloya. A minor scandal on its first publication, and a significant influence on Byron and Shelley, Zofloya deserves to be read alongside other established Gothic classics.
language: English
title: Zofloya: or The Moor
titlecomplete: Zofloya: or The Moor (The World's Classics)
genres: Literature, Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction, Classics, Italy, Fantasy, Historical, Gothic, 19th Century
ratings_count: 2099
places: Venice
publisher: Oxford University Press