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S'està carregant… The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story (1764 original; edició 1834)de Horace Walpole
Detalls de l'obraThe Castle of Otranto de Horace Walpole (1764)
  
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Well, that was...fun. Seriously, that was some major dramaaaaaaa. (  ) DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 |  A great beach read. It surely has some contrived plot devices and some cardboard characters, but it is just fun and I had to finish it. I love gothic literature and you can see the roots Walpole created that would be honed over generations of writers. (  ) drew_asson | Dec 3, 2020 | Bastante decepcionante, esta precursora de la novela gótica que, enlazando una situación absurda tras otra, se me caía de las manos a pesar de su corta longitud.Se le da el pase por preconizar todo lo que vino después, y es quizás lo único que disculpa, y tal vez obligue, a su lectura. ( ) Eucalafio | Oct 29, 2020 | This is the first of the early, 'classic' Gothic novels that I've read, and it's definitely a different form of the genre than that found a century later. It read a lot to me like the tales of Boccaccio's The Decameron, just with a lot more melodrama. It's not very good, to be honest, but it's entertaining and very interesting in terms of its place in literary history. But wow is it heavy-handed with the morals! ( )2  Tara_Calaby | Jun 22, 2020 | This was pretty bad. If it had been satire, MAYBE, but really. Not good. (  ) j_tuffi | May 30, 2020 | Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsBiblioteca Universale Rizzoli (L 487) — 7 més Contingut aSeven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror: The Castle of Otranto; The Old English Baron; Mistrust; The White Old Maid; The Heir of Mondolfo; The Fall of the House of Usher; Carmilla de Robert Donald Spector Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Vampyre; and a Fragment of a Novel de Horace Walpole Té l'adaptacióHa inspiratTé un estudi
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 romance: the ancient and the modern'. He givesus a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favourite among his numerous works. His friend, the poet Thomas Gray, wrote that he andhis family, having read Otranto, were now `afraid to go to bed o'nights'.The novel is here reprinted from a text of 1798, the last that Walpole himself prepared for the press. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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