The Castle of Otranto

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198704445
Total Pages : 193 pages
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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his only son on his wedding day, Manfred, the Prince of Otranto, determines to marry the bride-to-be, setting himself on a course of destruction.

The Castle of Otranto Illustrated

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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto Illustrated written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and 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 aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture

The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book The Mysterious Mother. A Tragedy written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642398
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Book Synopsis The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by : Nick Groom

Download or read book The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction written by Nick Groom and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home décor and contemporary fashion. Nick Groom shows how the Gothic has come to encompass so many meanings by telling the story of the Gothic from the ancient tribe who sacked Rome to the alternative subculture of the present day. This unique Very Short Introduction reveals that the Gothic has predominantly been a way of understanding and responding to the past. Time after time, the Gothic has been invoked in order to reveal what lies behind conventional history. It is a way of disclosing secrets, whether in the constitutional politics of seventeenth-century England or the racial politics of the United States. While contexts change, the Gothic perpetually regards the past with fascination, both yearning and horrified. It reminds us that neither societies nor individuals can escape the consequences of their actions. The anatomy of the Gothic is richly complex and perversely contradictory, and so the thirteen chapters here range deliberately widely. This is the first time that the entire story of the Gothic has been written as a continuous history: from the historians of late antiquity to the gardens of Georgian England, from the mediaeval cult of the macabre to German Expressionist cinema, from Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy to American consumer society, from folk ballads to vampires, from the past to the present. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Hieroglyphic Tales

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Hieroglyphic Tales written by Horace Walpole and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hieroglyphic Tales" is a collection of enchanting stories written by the renowned author Horace Walpole. This book explores various cultures and eras with its six intriguing tales, including Arabian Nights, Chinese fairy tales, and Milesian tales. Each story is unique and captivating, full of imagination and fantasy. The book contains the following stories: A New Arabian Night's Entertainment - The King and his Three Daughters - The Dice-Box. A Fairy Tale - The Peach in Brandy. A Milesian Tale - Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale - A True Love Story.

Three Gothic Novels

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014190562X
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Three Gothic Novels written by Horace Walpole and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1974-06-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

The Old English Baron

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Book Synopsis The Old English Baron by : Clara Reeve

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The Contested Castle

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060489
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Book Synopsis The Contested Castle by : Kate Ferguson Ellis

Download or read book The Contested Castle written by Kate Ferguson Ellis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.

The Castle of Otranto

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. It tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. On the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella, 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. 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, whom he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the Goth subculture.

Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.)

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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Book Synopsis Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.) by : William Beckford

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The Wrong Grave

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Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921520736
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis The Wrong Grave by : Kelly Link

Download or read book The Wrong Grave written by Kelly Link and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of Kelly Link's vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything in this collection of short stories deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning 'The Faery Handbag', in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the 'The Wrong Grave,' which tells the story of a sixteen year old boy who digs up the grave of his girlfriend in order to rescue the poetry he buried with her-these stories will put goosebumps on your goosebumps. Kelly Link has a cult following in the United States and now Australian teens can have their world rocked, too. Link's stories are funny, scary and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world.

Four Gothic Novels

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Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780192823311
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Four Gothic Novels written by Horace Walpole and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences. This collection illustrates the range and the attraction of the Gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is also a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.

The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155111304X
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother written by Horace Walpole and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Strawberry Hill

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Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711231849
Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Romantic Novel in England

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ISBN 13 : 9780674863989
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis The Romantic Novel in England by : Robert Kiely

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The Castle of Otranto

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545275887
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book The Castle of Otranto written by Horace Walpole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.