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7 de jul. de 1994 · Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers.
Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.
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- Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Mary Shelley
The Castle of Otranto is the first supernatural English novel and is a singularly influential work of Gothic fiction. It blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors, pictures beginning to move, and doors closing by themselves ...
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein by Horace Walpole; William Beckford; Mary Shelley - ISBN 10: 0140430369 - ISBN 13: 9780140430363 - Penguin Classics - 1968 - Softcover
With title page and frontispiece to Vathek, and divisional title pages - not featuring publisher's information or publication date - to the two subsequent works.Bentley first published these three volumes together in 1834, with further editions in 1836 and 1849. In combining two of the most celebrated and widely read gothic novels of the late eighteenth century, this was a popular work, making ...
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This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with ...
