Castle of Otranto

by Walpole, Horace, Lewis, W. S., Reed, Joseph W., Jr.

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ISBN-13: 9780192816061
ISBN: 0192816063
Publication Date: 1982
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

AUTHOR

Walpole, Horace, Lewis, W. S., Reed, Joseph W., Jr.

SUMMARY

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." Crammedwith 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.Walpole, Horace is the author of 'Castle of Otranto', published 1982 under ISBN 9780192816061 and ISBN 0192816063.

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