Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Release Date : 1794
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105020043506
Pages : 202 pages
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2021-09-16
ISBN 10 : 9781789826814
Pages : 114 pages
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Download The Castle of Otranto PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the first gothic novel, and credited with inspiring an entire genre of literary works, the Castle of Otranto is a venerable classic. First published in 1764, the book tells the tale of the titular castle, and the supposed curse that has befallen Manfred - its lord - and his family. When his son is struck and killed by a gargantuan helmet falling onto him from above shortly before his wedding, Manfred fears that the castle's curse will spell the end of his lineage - and resorts to desperate measures to lift it.
Author : Horace Walpole
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Release Date : 1892
ISBN 10 : UIUC:30112000732625
Pages : 200 pages
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Author : Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.)
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Release Date : 1845
ISBN 10 : OXFORD:591026078
Pages : 236 pages
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Release Date : 2022-12-31
ISBN 10 : 9781915054913
Pages : 89 pages
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Download The Castle of Otranto (Legend Classics) PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.” The Castle of Otranto is a macabre tale that revolves around a haunted castle. Manfred, the lord of Otranto, finds his son, Conrad, smashed by an enormous helmet on his wedding day. It is soon revealed that according to an ancient ambiguous prophecy Conrad's death might have been an ominous event that signifies the end of his lordship. To rectify the situation Manfred decides to marry his son's bride despite having a wife. Will Manfred plot succeed? Is he indeed a true prince of the castle? Walpole got the inspiration for this bizarre story from a dream. He gave his novel a very authentic embellishment using the plan of Strawberry Hill castle for the set in the novel. He also went as far as to make a believable spoof in the Preface to the first edition that the novel was recovered and translated from an old Italian manuscript. Not as culturally present and talked about a title as other Gothic classics like Frankenstein or Dracula, Otranto became the cornerstone text of the genre. The echoings of Otranto are even noticeable in more contemporary gothic tales such as Toni Morrison's Beloved where a building is more than a location but an entire mysterious entity in itself. hr The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales The Awakening Mrs Dalloway Gulliver’s Travels The Castle of Otranto Silas Marner Hard Times
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : The Floating Press
Release Date : 2009-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781775410706
Pages : 188 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (775 users)
Download The Castle of Otranto PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered the first gothic novel, and indeed an initiator of the whole genre, The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It tells the tale of the lord of a castle, Manfred, and his family. Manfred's son Conrad is about to be married to princess Isabella, but Conrad is killed; crushed to death by the fall of a huge helmet from above. In light of an ancient prophesy, this tragic event is especially ominous.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Broadview Press
Release Date : 2003-01-02
ISBN 10 : 155111304X
Pages : 364 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (113 users)
Download The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 364 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.
Author : Horace Walpole
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Release Date : 1811
ISBN 10 : PRNC:32101067487007
Pages : 220 pages
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Release Date : 1791
ISBN 10 : BSB:BSB10686363
Pages : 304 pages
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Author : Antje Kahle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-07
ISBN 10 : 9783640522200
Pages : 29 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (64 users)
Download The Role of Women in Gothic Novels - 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole, 'The Italian' by Ann Radcliffe, 'Melmoth the Wanderer' by Charles Robert Maturin PDF by Antje Kahle Full Free and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, University of Osnabrück, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: There are more than 50 years between "The Castle of Otranto" and "Melmoth the Wanderer". "The Castle of Otranto" was published 1764, "The Italian" 1797 and "Melmoth the Wanderer" 1820. It might be interesting that "The Castle of Otranto" was published in year of birth of Ann Radcliffe and "The Italian" has been published in the year Horace Walpole died. An incident of course, but an interesting one. "The Castle of Otranto" is set in the time between 1095 and 1243, "The Italian" is set in the 18th century and "Melmoth the Wanderer" covers an period of time from the late 17th century to the early 19th century. In the following work will find out especially about the women in the three mentioned novels. In which way are they presented, is there a stereotype of a gothic heroine and are there changes throughout the time referring to the date of publishing and writing? The first point will be a short definition of the term "Gothic" according to literature. The second point will be an introduction of the three authors. For a better understanding of their work and the possible differences a look at their biography is absolutely necessary for me. In order of publishing I will introduce Horace Walpole ("The Castle of Otranto"), Ann Radcliffe ("The Italian") and Charles Robert Maturin ("Melmoth the Wanderer"). Additional to some biographical dates I will give some information about their work and their style of writing. After introducing the authors I will concentrate on the novels and how women are described and presented. Which role do they play in the three novels? Is there something special about each woman in the texts? Here I will concentrate on some characteristics which are typical for gothic novels and not so much on the social conventions or expectations women are faced with at the appropria
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Diversion Books
Release Date : 2016-05-24
ISBN 10 : 9781682306512
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (682 users)
Download The Castle of Otranto (Diversion Classics) PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. When an unfortunate accident kills the son of Manfred, lord of the castle of Otranto, on the boy’s wedding day, his father is not just stricken with grief, but with fear. Terrified of an ancient prophecy fortelling the end of Manfred’s family line, the lord attempts to trump fate by divorcing his own wife and marrying his son Conrad’s intended bride. Isabella, still reeling from the death of her fiance, immediately flees, and begins a harrowing journey fraught with peril, encounters with the supernatural, and situations too haunting to be mere coincidence. This fascinating blend of ancient and modern romance is considered the first Gothic novel, giving birth to the genre that would inspire Edgar Allen Poe, Ann Radcliffe, and Bram Stoker. For more classic titles like this, visit www.diversionbooks.com/ebooks/diversion-classics
Author : Vijay Mishra
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0791417476
Pages : 356 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (417 users)
Download The Gothic Sublime PDF by Vijay Mishra Full Free and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0838753833
Pages : 212 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (753 users)
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Author : Christina Gieseler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-04
ISBN 10 : 9783640604890
Pages : 33 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (64 users)
Download The Semantic Charging of Space in "The Castle of Otranto" (Gothic Novel) PDF by Christina Gieseler Full Free and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Wuppertal (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: The British Novel in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century, language: English, abstract: [...] An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors [Isabella] had passed, and which grating on the rusty hinges were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror [...] (Walpole 61). This passage of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto is only one example that shows how the construction of the setting in this novel strongly contributes to the atmosphere of the tale. Also in other passages it becomes obvious that the description of space and landscape conveys a specific meaning within the story, and even prefigures the development throughout the plot. Nünning and Nünning mention: "Räume [fungieren] nicht nur als Schauplätze [...], sondern [erfüllen] eine 'Erzählfunktion' [...], 'räumliche Oppositionen [werden] zum Modell für semantische Oppositionen'" (cf. 132). Thus, several places and the landscape depicted in the setting may function as semantic carriers (cf. ibid. 133). In this essay it will be examined in how far space is semantically charged in Walpole's work, and how this influences the plot, the atmosphere within the story, and the reader's perception of it. In addition, it will be shown that the semantic charging of the settings in The Castle of Otranto is also influenced by its being a Gothic novel. Therefore, a definition of the latter term will be given as well...
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Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
Release Date : 1830
ISBN 10 : BL:A0026665189
Pages : 300 pages
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Author : Margery Sabin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-24
ISBN 10 : 9780195348705
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (195 users)
Download Dissenters and Mavericks PDF by Margery Sabin Full Free and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences of a wide range of readers. Offering fresh and provocative interpretations of both well-known and unfamiliar texts--from colonial writers such as Horace Walpole and Edmund Burke to twentieth-century Indian writers such as Nirad Chaudhuri, V.S. Naipaul, and Pankaj Mishra--the book proposes a controversial challenge to prevailing academic methodology in the field of postcolonial studies.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher : Everymans Library
Release Date : 1993
ISBN 10 : 0460871986
Pages : 164 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (871 users)
Download The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales PDF by Horace Walpole Full Free and published by Everymans Library. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764) stated the vogue for Gothic fiction with its mix of supernatural happenings, crimes of passion and wronged heir restored; horror story , mystery and , at the same time tantilisingly autobigrophical. THE HIEROGLYPHIC TALES (1785, a collection of surrealistic and eerily modern fables, first appeared in a unique edition printed on Walpole's own press, at his gothic house in Twickenham.
