by Horace Walpole · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192816061
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«The Castle of Otranto» is the Gothic novel by Horace Walpole, published by Oxford University Press España, S.A. in paperback (136 pages, in English).
Considered one of the first Gothic novels, it narrates the fall of a noble lineage due to a prophecy and a curse weighing on a castle. Spectral apparitions, catastrophes, power struggles, and secrets about the true heir unfold as a tyrant tries to hold a throne that does not belong to him.
Originally published in 1764. This 1982 edition belongs to the Oxford World's Classics collection and includes an introduction by W. S. Lewis and notes by Joseph W. Reed Jr.
For students of English literature and readers who want to discover the origins of the Gothic genre.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
