The Castle of Otranto (Pocket)
avWalpole, Horace
ISBN: 9781907523809Horace Walpole is credited by many with the invention of the Gothic Novel. The author claimed to have written 'The Castle of Otranto' - a medieval mystery story set in a haunted castle peopled by fantastic characters - after s night of dreams. It is a fitting origin for this dark book of terror and [...]
The Castle Of Otranto (CD-bok)
avHorace Walpole, Neville (NRT) Jason, Horace Walpole
ISBN: 9781843798651 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet.The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thundercl[...]
The Castle of Otranto (Storpocket)
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9780140437676 - UTGIVEN: 200109On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying sup[...]
Castle of otranto (Pocket)
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9780141191959 - UTGIVEN: 2010-01-28A haunted castle and a ruined bloodline Manfred, wicked lord of Otranto Castle, is horrified when his son is crushed to death on his wedding day. But rather than witness the end of his line, as foretold in a curse, he resolves to send his own wife to a convent and marry the intended bride himself.[...]
Four Gothic Novels (Pocket)
avHorace Walpole, William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary W. Shelley
ISBN: 9780192823311 - UTGIVEN: 1994-07-01Each of these four Gothic stories reveals a psychological tale of isolation and monomania. H. Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' is filled with terror and ghostly interventions. William Beckford's 'Vathek' alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence. 'The Monk', by Matthew Lewis a[...]
The Castle of Otranto (Häftad)
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9780198704447 - UTGIVEN: 2014-10'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pi[...]
The Castle of Otranto (Häftad)
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9780199537211 - UTGIVEN: 200808First 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 se[...]
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Inbunden)
ISBN: 9780300125740 - UTGIVEN: 2009-10Horace Walpole (1717-1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-kn[...]
The Three Gothic Novels (Häftad)
avHorace Walpole, William Beckford, John Polidori
ISBN: 9780486212326 - UTGIVEN: 199801
Horace Walpole (häftad)
ISBN: 9780571269211 - UTGIVEN: 2010-04Horace Walpole, famous for his novel "The Castle of Otranto" and his gothick castle-villa, Strawberry Hill, has been oddly shielded by his previous admirers. The most famous of these was W.S. Lewis, a rich American scholar, who collected virtually all of Walpole's surviving letters and papers and ed[...]
The Mysterious Mother. a Tragedy. by Mr. Horace Walpole. (Häftad)
ISBN: 9781170107805 - UTGIVEN: 2010-06
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto--A Gothic Story (Classic Edition) (häftad)
ISBN: 9781451537567 - UTGIVEN: 2010-03
The Castle of Otranto, Nightmare Abbey & Vathek (Häftad)
avHorace Walpole, William Beckford, Thomas Love Peacock
ISBN: 9781840221848 - UTGIVEN: 200908The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating genre.[...]
The Castle of Otranto (Pocket)
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9781843915201 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09-26A fantastic, provocative and playful tale of medieval dynastic and sexual politics, The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first ever published gothic novel and has inspired authors from Edgar Allan Poe to J.K. Rowling. Abounding with unfulfilled prophecies, supernatural occurrences, adventure, s[...]
The Castle of Otranto (Ljudbok)
avHorace Walpole, Great Plains
ISBN: 9789176050644The 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 century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as C[...]
The Castle of Otranto
avHorace Walpole
ISBN: 9789176050651 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03The 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 century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as C[...]
