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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story

โœ Scribed by Horace Walpole; W. S. Lewis; E. J. Clery

Book ID
106904998
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1963
Tongue
English
Weight
79 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780199537211

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Product Description

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.

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