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The Castle of Otranto (The World's Classics)
The Castle of Otranto - The World's Classics
Author: Horace Walpole, Joseph W. Reed
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, t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192816061
ISBN-10: 0192816063
Publication Date: 9/30/1982
Pages: 136
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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A classic Gothic novel full of twists and turns in a medieval castle. Not for the faint of heart.


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