The Castle of Otranto
基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics ·页码：208 页 ·出版日期：2002年01月 ·ISBN：0140437673 ·条形码：9780140437676 ·版本：New Ed ·装帧：平装 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：2002年01月
·ISBN：0140437673
·条形码：9780140437676
·版本：New Ed
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Penguin Classics
·外文书名：奥特兰托城堡
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On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Fearing the end of his dynasty, his father, Manfred, determines to marry Conrad's betrothed, Isabella, until a series of supernatural events stands in his way. . . .
Set in the time of the crusades,
The Castle of Otranto (1764) established the Gothic as a literary form in England. With its compelling blend of psychological realism and supernatural terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires, it has influenced a literary tradition stretching from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to Daphne Du Maurier and Stephen King.
This Penguin Classics edition includes a full selection of early responses to the novel, as well as a critical introduction, chronology of Walpole's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes.
"[Walpole] is the father of the first romance and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer." (Lord Byron)
作者简介 Horace Walpole (1717-1797), Fourth Earl of Oxford, was the son of the Whig prime minister Robert Walpole. In 1774 he moved to Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, which he transformed into his "little Gothic castle."
