Author : Horace Walpole
Release : 2003-01-02
Genre : Fiction
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The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother write by Horace Walpole. This book was released on 2003-01-02. The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole. Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole’s private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized country house, The Castle of Otranto became an instant and immediate classic of the Gothic genre as well as the prototype for Gothic fiction for the next two hundred years. Walpole’s brooding and intense drama, The Mysterious Mother, focuses on the protagonist’s angst over an act of incest with his mother, and includes the appearance of Father Benedict, Gothic literature’s first evil monk. Appendices in this edition include selections from Walpole’s letters, contemporary responses, and writings illustrating the aesthetic and intellectual climate of the period. Also included is Sir Walter Scott’s introduction to the 1811 edition of The Castle of Otranto.