Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole



The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre whic…

Die Burg von Otranto

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Horace Walpole



Manfred, der Fürst von Otranto ist besorgt um die Zukunft seines Hauses und will deshalb seinen Sohn so bald als möglich mit Isabe…

The Castle of Otranto (Version 2)

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Horace Walpole



The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies…

Hieroglyphic Tales

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Horace Walpole



Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

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Horace Walpole



Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…