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The Castle Of Otranto
[Paperback - 2001]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Black Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780140437676 | Pages: 0
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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Fearing the end of his dynasty, his father, Manfred, determines to marry Conrad's betrothed, Isabella, until a series of supernatural events stands in his way. . . .Set in the time of the crusades,The Castle of Otrantoestablished the Gothic as a literary form in England. With its compelling blend of psychological realism and supernatural terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires, it has influenced a literary tradition stretching from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to Daphne Du Maurier and Stephen King.This Penguin Classics edition includes a full selection of early responses to the novel, as well as a critical introduction, chronology of Walpole's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes."[Walpole] is the father of the first romance and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer." (Lord Byron)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford — also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel,The Castle of Otranto. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on hisLetters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of Lord Nelson.

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