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Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein

Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0192823310
ISBN13: 9780192823311
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 18 1994
Pages: 624
Weight: 0.91
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
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 numberous 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 a young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences.

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