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The Castle Of Otranto Gothic Novel 1764 By
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-10-05
The Castle Of Otranto Gothic Novel 1764 By written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-05 with categories.
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 which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century.
The Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-04-10
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-10 with categories.
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier
The Castle Of Otranto 1764 By Horace Walpole
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-10-04
The Castle Of Otranto 1764 By Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-04 with categories.
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is 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 that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier. Plot: The Castle of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, "that the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by marrying Isabella himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, who he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. However, as Manfred attempts to marry Isabella, she escapes to a church with the aid of a peasant named Theodore. Manfred orders Theodore's death while talking to the friar Jerome, who ensured Isabella's safety in the church. When Theodore removes his shirt to be killed, Jerome recognizes a marking below his shoulder and identifies Theodore as his own son. Jerome begs for his son's life, but Manfred says Jerome must either give up the princess or his son's life. They are interrupted by a trumpet and the entrance of knights from another kingdom who want to deliver Isabella. This leads the knights and Manfred to race to find Isabella. Theodore, having been locked in a tower by Manfred, is freed by Manfred's daughter Matilda. He races to the underground church and finds Isabella. He hides her in a cave and blocks it to protect her from Manfred and ends up fighting one of the mysterious knights. Theodore badly wounds the knight, who turns out to be Isabella's father, Frederic. With that, they all go up to the castle to work things out. Frederic falls in love with Matilda and he and Manfred begin to make a deal about marrying each other's daughters. Manfred, suspecting that Isabella is meeting Theodore in a tryst in the church, takes a knife into the church, where Matilda is meeting Theodore. Thinking his own daughter is Isabella, he stabs her. Theodore is then revealed to be the true prince of Otranto and Matilda dies, leaving Manfred to repent. Theodore becomes king and eventually marries Isabella because she is the only one who can understand his true sorrow.......... Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. He was the son of the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. As Horace Walpole was childless, on his death his Baron Walpole barony descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford.....
The Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Modernista
Release Date : 2024-05-30
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Modernista this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with categories.
In a remote Italian castle, the heir to the lordship of Otranto meets a tragic fate when a massive helmet falls from the sky and crushes him on his wedding day. This mysterious event sets off a chain of supernatural occurrences and sinister schemes as the tyrannical Lord Manfred, desperate to maintain his grip on power, seeks to secure the castle and its fortunes. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto [1764] is widely regarded as the pioneering work of Gothic fiction in English literature. Combining elements of horror, romance, and the supernatural, Walpole's novel established the genre's enduring tropes of dark, atmospheric settings and melodramatic plot twists. Its influence can be seen in subsequent Gothic literature, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Bram Stoker's Dracula, shaping the way writers explore themes of fear, desire, and the uncanny. HORACE WALPOLE [1717-1797] was an English writer and art historian. Walpole is perhaps best remembered for his pioneering work in the Gothic genre, particularly his novel The Castle of Otranto [1764] which is regarded as the first Gothic novel in English literature.
The Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-05
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-05 with categories.
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 which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Daphne du Maurier, and Stephen King.
The Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1998-04-02
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-02 with Inheritance and succession categories.
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.
The Castle Of Otranto And The Mysterious Mother
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2003-01-02
The Castle Of Otranto And The Mysterious Mother written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-02 with Fiction categories.
This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole. Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole’s private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized country house, The Castle of Otranto became an instant and immediate classic of the Gothic genre as well as the prototype for Gothic fiction for the next two hundred years. Walpole’s brooding and intense drama, The Mysterious Mother, focuses on the protagonist’s angst over an act of incest with his mother, and includes the appearance of Father Benedict, Gothic literature’s first evil monk. Appendices in this edition include selections from Walpole’s letters, contemporary responses, and writings illustrating the aesthetic and intellectual climate of the period. Also included is Sir Walter Scott’s introduction to the 1811 edition of The Castle of Otranto.
The Castle Of Otranto By Horace Walpole A Gothic Story By Horace Walpole
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-26
The Castle Of Otranto By Horace Walpole A Gothic Story By Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-26 with Fiction categories.
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is 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 Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 2021-01-01
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Prabhat Prakashan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
The Castle of Otranto' is a gothic novel by Horace Walpole. It was first published in the year 1764. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.
The Castle Of Otranto
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Author : Horace Walpole
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018
The Castle Of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Castle of Otranto 'The First Gothic Novel' By Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. Horace Walpole produced The Castle of Otranto in 1765, at the mature age of forty-eight. It was suggested by a dream from which he said he waked one morning, and of which "all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." So began the tale which professed to be translated by "William Marshal, gentleman, from the Italian of Onuphro Muralto, canon of the Church of St. Nicholas, at Otranto." It was written in two months. Walpole's friend Gray reported to him that at Cambridge the book made "some of them cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights." The Castle of Otranto was, in its own way, an early sign of the reaction towards romance in the latter part of the last century. This gives it interest. But it has had many followers, and the hardy modern reader, when he read's Gray's note from Cambridge, needs to be reminded of its date.