| Title | : | The Castle of Otranto |
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| Author | : | Horace Walpole |
| Release | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Romance |
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| 1 | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole |
| The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet. The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thunderclaps, moonlight and dark castle walls - mirroring the inner turmoils of the characters themselves. Horace Walpole’s tale, an immediate success when it first appeared in 1764, is a classic of its genre. |
