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Horace Walpole

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born

September 24, 1717 in London, England, The United Kingdom

died

March 02, 1797

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Literature & Fiction, Humor, Nonfiction

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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of Lord Nelson.

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Average rating: 3.20 · 4,400 ratings · 475 reviews · 197 distinct works

	The Castle of Otranto 3.12 avg rating — 3,735 ratings — published 12 — 127 editions	My rating:
	Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, John William Polidori 3.62 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Matthew Gregory Lewis 3.98 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rinehart Editions - The Castle of Otronto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Northanger Abbey by Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	Hieroglyphic Tales 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Castle of Otranto and the Man of Feeling, A Longman Cultural Edition by Horace Walpole, Henry MacKenzie, Laura Mandell (Editor) 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Castle of Otranto, Vathek & Nightmare Abbey by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Thomas Love Peacock 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	I grandi romanzi gotici by Horace Walpole, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Ann Radcliffe 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Letters of Horace Walpole, V1 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1926 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales (Everyman Paperback by Horace Walpole, Robert L. Mack (Illustrator), Horace Wlapole 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993	My rating:

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Quotes by Horace Walpole

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: comedy , emotions , life , perspective , thinking , tragedy

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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
― Horace Walpole

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“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
― Horace Walpole

tags: clarity , decision , decisions , gardening , thinking , thought

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