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Gothic Classics: the Castle of Otranto and the Old English Baron by Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Leslie Klinger (Editor); Eric Guignard (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Haunted Library Horror Classics Ser.
Manfred, the lord of the castle of Otranto, has long lived in dread of an ancient prophecy: it's foretold that when his family line ends, the true owner of the castle will appear and claim it. In a desperate bid to keep the castle, Manfred plans to coerce a young woman named Isabella into marrying him. ...Show more
Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole; Kenneth Gross (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
The first surrealist stories in English, originally published in an edition of six all kept under lock and key by Horace Walpole.
On Modern Gardening by Horace Walpole
Category: Gardening
By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernization, and the superiority of e ...Show more
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole; William Hadley (Editor); Stephen Clarke (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
A new and newly annotated selection of letters--the only selected edition available in hardcover--from the English eighteenth-century historian, novelist, and politician whose correspondence is one of the most admired in English literature. Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime min ...Show more
The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics
With this title, Walpole established the Gothic as a literary form in England. It was first published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, a supernatural tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades and one which inspired terror in its early readers.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics
The Castle of OtrantoBy Horace WalpoleMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edite ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto /nightmare Abbey/Vathek by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating genre. In ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pionee ...Show more
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto | Vathek | Frankenstein by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: "The Castle of Otranto", published pseudonymously in ...Show more
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