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The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

1765 200 pages eng ★ 3.4 (17 ratings)

This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend th…

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