The Castle of Otranto

Annotated Edition

Horace Walpole author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:25th Oct '18

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The Castle of Otranto cover

Presented here with extra material about the author’s life and works, notes and bibliographic information, The Castle of Otranto was the first and most influential novel of the eighteenth-century Gothic revivalWhen Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his line is at an end, declares that he will divorce his wife and marry his late son’s intended bride. Soon, however, this planned union brings about a series of supernatural events, tragic misunderstandings and cold-blooded murder. Presented as the translation of a medieval Italian text from the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto was the first and most influential novel of the eighteenth-century Gothic revival, and introduced several of what became its most recognizable tropes.

I have received The Castle of Otranto… It engages our attention here, makes some of us cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o’nights. -- Thomas Gray

ISBN: 9781847497598

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 156g

160 pages