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The Castle
Literature · 1926
Horace Walpole
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Literature 1926

The Castle

unfinished bureaucracyvillage purgatoryendless deferral
Author
Horace Walpole
Year
1926
Region
Czechoslovakia
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
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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 the two kinds of ro...

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unfinished bureaucracy unfinished bureaucracyvillage purgatory
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Horace Walpole, 1926 — The Castle

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 the two kinds of ro...

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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 the two kinds of ro...
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