The Castle Of Otranto

Author: Horace Walpole

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Price : $12.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780140437676
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.16
Publication date : 01 September 2001
Produced in : United Kingdom
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With this title, Walpole established the Gothic as a literary form in England. It was first published as a scholarly translation from an ancient Italian text, a supernatural tale of a fatal prophecy set in the time of the crusades and one which inspired terror in its early readers.

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