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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first gothic novel as it merges medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series series Civitas Library Classics
    THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO is a Gothic masterpiece by Horace Walpole (1717-1797). The story follows the misfortunes of Manfred, lord of Castle of Otranto in Italy whose son Conrad dies mysteriously just before he is to marry. Since an ancient prophecy foretells of the extinction of the Otrantos, Manfred fears the ancient doom of Otranto has come to claim him.This edition includes an active table of ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is widely regarded as the first Gothic novel, a groundbreaking work that established many of the conventions that would define the genre for centuries to come. First published in 1764, the novel combines elements of mystery, romance, horror, and the supernatural, creating a dramatic and atmospheric narrative that has influenced countless later writers. The ... Read more

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  • 50 Classic Gothic Works Vol. 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Dracula, Frankenstein, The Black Cat, The Picture Of Dorian Gray...

    by Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Golden Deer Classics, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Beckford, H.P. Lovecraft, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charles Robert Maturin, Washington Irving, James Hogg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Charlotte Brontë, James Malcom Rymer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving The ... Read more

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  • THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO

    by HORACE WALPOLE. ...
    HORACE WALPOLE was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, the great statesman, who died Earl of Orford. He was born in 1717, the year in which his father resigned office, remaining in opposition for almost three years before his return to a long tenure of power. Horace Walpole was educated at Eton, where he formed a school friendship with Thomas Gray, who was but a few months older. In 1739 Gray ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    "The Castle of Otranto" tells the story of Manfred, the lord of the Castle of Otranto, who seeks to maintain his family's lineage and power. When his son Conrad dies mysteriously on his wedding day, Manfred becomes obsessed with producing a male heir to secure his dynasty. He is willing to go to extreme lengths, including defying societal and moral conventions, to achieve his goal.The novel is ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    Series 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 pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, ... Read more

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  • Three Gothic Novels

    by Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, William Beckford ...
    Series series
    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 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    A Gothic Story

    by Horace Walpole ...
    A giant helmet falls out of the sky and crushes the heir on his wedding day, and the castle spends the rest of the book refusing to let a usurping family keep it. Walpole published it as a translation of a medieval Italian manuscript, and admitted the hoax only when it succeeded. Everything later called Gothic - the vaults, the portrait that moves, the doomed lineage - starts here. ... Read more

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  • Horace Walpole and his World

    by Horace Walpole ...
    We offer to the general reader some specimens of Horace Walpole’s correspondence. Students of history and students of literature are familiar with this great mine of facts and fancies, but it is too extensive to be fully explored by those who have not both ample leisure and strong inclination for such employment. Yet most persons, we imagine, would be glad to have some acquaintance with the prince ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier. ... Read more

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  • The Castle of Otranto

    by Horace Walpole ...
    "The Castle of Otranto", by Horace Walpole, published in 1764, is generally viewed as the first Gothic novel and it is often said to have founded the horror story as a legitimate literary form.It tells the story of Manfred, the prince of Otranto, who is keen to secure the castle for his descendants in the face of a mysterious curse. The novel begins with the death of Manfred’s son, Conrad, who is ... Read more

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