The Castle of Otranto

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198704445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
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

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
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

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Three Gothic Novels

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190562X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
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

Author: Clara Reeve
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Hieroglyphic Tales

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
"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.

The Contested Castle

Author: Kate Ferguson Ellis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060489
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
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 Return of the Repressed

Author: Valdine Clemens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199586790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There are many interpretations of the word 'Gothic'. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can better interpret and understand society today.

The Wrong Grave

Author: Kelly Link
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921520736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
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.