<b>Walpole''s <i>The Castle of Otranto</i>, Beckford''s<i> Vathek</i>, and Shelley''s <i>Frankenstein</i></b><br><br>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: <i>The Castle of Otranto</i>, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. <i>Vathek</i> (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of <i>Frankenstein</i> (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles
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Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous correspondents...
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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...
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In looking closely at Horace Walpole''s Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself...
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