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HORACE WALPOLE The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story by W.S.LEWIS E.J.CLERY, Horace Walpole, edited by W.S. Lewis, with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery, Walpole, Horace is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 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 ide

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Author

W.S.LEWIS E.J.CLERY, Horace Walpole, edited by W.S. Lewis, with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery, Walpole, Horace

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192823519

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.18 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13