The Castle of Otranto
Author: Horace Walpole
Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!’,,The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered.,,Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from th….Read More
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