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The Castle of Otranto: The First Gothic Novel
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Series: The First Gothic Novel
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ISBN13: 9781983452062
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.14 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Castle of Otranto
'The First Gothic Novel'
By Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel.
Horace Walpole produced The Castle of Otranto in 1765, at the mature age of forty-eight. It was suggested by a dream from which he said he waked one morning, and of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine, filled with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.
So began the tale which professed to be translated by William Marshal, gentleman, from the Italian of Onuphro Muralto, canon of the Church of St. Nicholas, at Otranto. It was written in two months. Walpole's friend Gray reported to him that at Cambridge the book made some of them cry a little, and all in general afraid to go to bed o' nights. The Castle of Otranto was, in its own way, an early sign of the reaction towards romance in the latter part of the last century. This gives it interest. But it has had many followers, and the hardy modern reader, when he read's Gray's note from Cambridge, needs to be reminded of its date.
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