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Title	:	The Castle of Otranto
Author	:	Horace Walpole
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 125 pages
Published	:	July 16th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published 1764)
Categories	:	Classics. Gothic. Horror. Fiction. Literature. 18th Century. Fantasy

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Paperback | Pages: 125 pages

Rating: 3.18 | 21807 Users | 1882 Reviews

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First 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." Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. The novel is reprinted here from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press.

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Original Title:	The Castle of Otranto
ISBN:	0192834401 (ISBN13: 9780192834409)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Matilda, Isabella, Manfred, Bianca, Friar Jerome, Theodore, Hippolita, Frederic
Setting:	Otranto(Italy) Italy

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Portents and parables. Tainted heritage. Ghouliess and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties. This was just for fun. I was hoping for something quick and melodramatic. After reading a paragraph, I knew it would fit the bill. The quick part became a lil sludgy sometimes. The language was sometimes less than clear. It could be the high diction, or simple word choice; or it could be the ebook edition I read was in need of another round of proofing. As many a reviewer has stated, this is it, the

I liked one sentence from The Castle of Otranto. In the middle of the tyrant Manfred's long-ass soliloquy to an enormous retinue of knights and other attendants a rival nobleman has sent to pay a visit, we get this: "The knights gazed on each other, wondering where this would end."

The Otranto Observer:Prince Gets Squashed by Giant Airborne Helmet! Full News on Page Six! Lord of Otranto Says - "Sorry, the Castle Ain't Mine!"FULL Interview with Covergirl Isabella - "He was Never the One for Me!"Love Advice from Star-Struck Pair! Theodore and Matilda Tell All - How YOU Can Find True Love in Just Ten Seconds!Jerome and Hippolita's 'Faithful's Corner': Why Entering a Monastery's the Only Way to Go!The Commoner's Chronicle: Bianca and her Fellows Tell Why THEY'RE the Ones Who

Shovel loads of gothicness with a daft plot and formulaic characters; this is regarded as the first gothic novel. Walpole tries to create a new genre quite consciously by combining the new romance style of eighteenth century novels and the older tradition of fantastical tales. Walpole also introduces a number of gothic tropes for the first time; strange and eerie goings on, things that go bump in the night, rapacious and predatory men, beautiful and endangered heroines and a spot of ghostliness.

This granddaddy of all Gothics is still worth a read. It has its flaws, but Walpole's style is crisp and economical, and the book itself is mercifully brief. Manfred possesses all the important features of the classic gothic hero that Mrs. Radcliffe and others would later use to great advantage, and the initial scenes--particularly the surrealistic tableau of Manfred's heir flattened by a gigantic helmet and the exciting sequence of Isabella's flight through the castle's subterranean

As a novel it's downright risible, but as a period piece it's fascinating. While it doesn't have quite as much rape and murder per square inch (the bestseller it inspired, The Monk, which was very clearly written by a teenage boy, I think takes that dubious award) it has enough to satisfy the Game of Thrones fan--and is a whole lot shorter.So this novel, written by Horace Walpole, whose letters are utterly delightful, was presented as a text translated from an old manuscript. People actually

Horace Walpole's 1764 Castle of Otranto is generally given credit as the first Gothic novel, which makes it interesting from a historical perspective, especially if you're into Gothic stuff, which I totally am because whee, virgins fleeing evil men in drafty castles in their nightgowns! Which this book totally has, and also enormous helmets falling from the sky and crushing dudes, which I can't decide if that's a bummer of a way to go or not. From a literature perspective, it's pretty much