Books with title Castle of Otranto: a Gothic Story

One fine June morning, the Right Honourable Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, awoke from a very strange dream in his Gothic mansion of Strawberry Hill. Little did he then realise that as a consequence of that dream he would bring into being an entirely new, exciting form of literature: "the Gothic novel". It was this aristocratic figure, of wildly eccentric and eclectic tastes that was to be become the somewhat unlikely father of Gothic Literature and indeed, the foundation of our modern day love affair with all things Gothic.Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto in 1764, at the ripe old age of forty-eight. The idea for the story came one night in June of that year, from a dream he had in his Gothic Mansion, Strawberry Hill. He recalled that he awoke one morning from a dream, 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.” Otranto has been published in over a hundred different editions and has never been out of print for any length of time. This continues to this day, for the ever renewing succession of readers who wish to experience this remarkable work, the very first instance of the Gothic novel and the birth of the genre that gave us The Mysteries of Udolpho, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Dracula."Pushing open the door gently, he saw a person kneeling before the altar. As he approached nearer, it seemed not a woman, but one in a long woollen weed, whose back was towards him. The person seemed absorbed in prayer. The marquis was about to return, when the figure rising, stood some moments fixed in meditation, without regarding him. The marquis, expecting the holy person to come forth, and meaning to excuse his uncivil interruption, said, Reverend father, I sought the lady Hippolita.— Hippolita! replied a hollow voice: camest thou to this castle to seek Hippolita?— And then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Frederic the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit’s cowl". (The Castle of Otranto, Chapter V) Please visit our Amazon page for more great Gothic books http://smarturl.it/Lexido?IQid=COAMLEXIDO CLASSIC EDITIONS series provide high quality single volume editions of selected classic texts. Our objective is to provide the very best reading experience of classic texts for the Ebook reader. As the focus of this edition is on a single book (rather than a collection), a much closer focus and attention to the specific work is possible. Please note that minor revisions to the punctuation of the original text have been made to better suit the taste of contemporary readers. Also, to ensure the best possible enjoyment and ease of understanding whilst reading the book, this edition includes footnotes and reference material.These supporting features are especially important when reading texts from the 18th and 19th century. The LEXIDO edition of Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" has bee extensively proof read and Quality Assured to ensure that your Ebook is: - Faithful to the text of the original printed edition - Free from spelling, layout defects and omissions - Excellently reproduced on all Kindle Ebook readers - Easy to navigate via a Table of Contents linking to each chapter. This edition includes the following supporting material: - The prefaces for the first and second editions- Footnotes to aid understanding of unfamiliar terms and references - A concise biography of Horace Walpole - A reading list and chronology of classic Gothic Fiction.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers.European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels* Short Stories* Belles-Lettres* Short Prose Forms* Dramatic Works* Poetry* Anthologies* And moreSelected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.Additional MetadataPrimary Id: B0155600PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0155600DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062Bibliographic Id: NCCO002650Reel: 319MCODE: 4UVCOriginal Publisher: Printed for Christ FredOriginal Publication Year: 1794Original Publication Place: BerlinSubjectsGothic fiction (Literary genre) -- Early works to 1800.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Trinity College Library Watkinson CollectionT143237The 'Sonnet to the Right Honorable Lady Mary Coke' signed: H. W., i.e. Horace Walpole.London: printed for William Bathoe, and Thomas Lownds, 1765. xvi,200p.; 8°

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT210671Anonymous. By Horace Walpole. The titlepage is engraved.Berlin: printed for Christ: Fred: Himbourg, 1794. XXII,152p., plates; 12°