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This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with ...
Actually 3 1/2 stars as a sort of average for the three books in this anthology. Castle of Otranto: Pretty awesome. One commenter described it as being kind of Shakespearean, and I agree - you can enjoy it as if Shakespeare decided to sit down and write a haunted house novella. You can see the very beginnings of modern horror tropes here (panicked servants seeing things, ancestor in the ...
The list of Gothic NOVELS (rather than stories)in chronological order which make the grade are:Horace Walpole's CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764), ClaraReeve's THE CHAMPION OF VIRTUE (1777), WilliamBeckford's VATHEK (1786), Ann Radcliffe's THEMYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (1794), Matthew Gregory Lewis'sTHE MONK (1795), Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN (1818),John Polidori's VAMPYRE (1819), Charles R. Maturin ...
Unfortunately, true Gothic novels (not simply modern detective stories called "Gothic") are extremely rare books, and have never been as available as they should be.The first member in this collection, Horace Walpole's TheCastle of Otranto, published as a Christmas book for 1764, was the first and one of the greatest members of the genre.
7 lug 1994 · Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers.
This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with ...
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , Beckford's Vathek , and Shelley's Frankenstein The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of ...
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