Oxford World's Classics: Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0192834401 ISBN 13: 9780192834409

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press España, S.A., 2030

Riassunto

Book by Walpole Horace

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Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press España, S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2030
• ISBN 10: 0192834401
• ISBN 13: 9780192834409
• Rilegatura: Tapa blanda
• Numero di pagine: 176