Horace Walpole and His World
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Litres
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5041205515
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2020-04-04
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The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0198704445
After the death of his only son on his wedding day, Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, determines to marry the bride-to-be, setting himself on a course of destruction.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Art historians
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1791
Category : English drama
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Author : Anna Chalcraft
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture, Gothic
ISBN : 9780711231849
A room-by-room tour of one of the wonders of the eighteenth-century architectural world
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters" by Horace Walpole. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1974-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014190562X
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1994-07-07
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ISBN : 9780192823311
Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences. This collection illustrates the range and the attraction of the Gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is also a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.