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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'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests.
Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favourite among his numerous works. His friend, the poet Thomas Gray, wrote that he and his family, having read Otranto, were now 'afraid to go to bed o' nights'.
- The novel is here reprinted from the text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for press.
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Castles, Gothic revival (Literature), Translations into Russian, Vampires, Fantasy fiction, Spanish language, Fiction, Gothic literature, open_syllabus_project, Inheritance and succession, English Horror tales, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Italy, fiction, Fiction, horror, Church work with prostitutes, Lay missionaries, Conduct of life, Women, Fiction, historical, general, Castle of Otranto (Walpole, Horace), Gothic fiction (literary genre), Fiction, gothic, English literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPeople
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The Castle of Otranto: a Gothic story
2014, Oxford University Press
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The castle of Otranto: a gothic story / Horace Walpole ; edited by W.S. Lewis with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery.
2008, Oxford University Press
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
January 2004, Barnes & Noble
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The Castle of Otranto: a gothic story
1996, Oxford University Press
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The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story
1791, Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes facsim. of original t.p.
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This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. 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." He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. - Back cover.
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