[Online library] The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics)
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| #33051 in Books | Walpole Horace | 2014-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.50 x7.70l,.33 | File Name: 0198704445 | 192 pages | The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story
||24 of 25 people found the following review helpful.| Nick Groom's 2014 Oxford edition of "Otranto" is astonishing.|By Mike Emery|This reissue of "The Castle of Otranto" is a much needed updating of the book's supporting material for the 21st century. Groom has read the entire correspondence of Horace Walpole (which runs over 4000 letters, many of them long), and makes brilliant use of them in his new introduction to this book.||Horror tale by Horace Walpole, published in 1765. The work is considered the first gothic novel in the English language; its supernatural happenings and mysterious ambiance were widely emulated in the genre. Manfred is the tyrannical usurper of the princedom
'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, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Ot...
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