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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
$7.54 - Save $0.39 (4%) - RRP $7.93 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Castle of OtrantoFirst published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. Walpole gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contexts. Emma Clery's new introduction and notes make this the definitive edition.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 15 January 2009
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Romance
- ISBN 13: 9780199537211 ISBN 10: 0199537216
- Sales rank: 22,449
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Full description for The Castle of Otranto
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 a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.
