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The Castle of Otranto
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The pioneering Gothic novel of inheritance, prophecy, terror, secret guilt, and haunted architecture.
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto helped launch the Gothic novel. Horace Walpole fills a medieval castle with prophecy, family ambition, sudden terror, supernatural signs, and the pressure of buried crimes.
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Horace Walpole died in 1797, and The Castle of Otranto was first published in 1764. These dates support the public-domain basis for the English source text used in this edition.
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- 01Full text
- 02CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY
- 03CASTLE OF OTRANTO.
- 04HORACE WALPOLE.
- 05CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
- 06_LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_
- 07INTRODUCTION
- 08H. M.
- 09PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 10SONNET TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARY COKE.
- 11H. W.
- 12CHAPTER I.
- 13CHAPTER II.
- 14CHAPTER III.
- 15CHAPTER IV.
- 16CHAPTER V.
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