false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg 12923 66 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 gives us 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 and his 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. 46432 book 1764 The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story total:959|5:86|4:221|3:392|2:212|1:48| 959 2962 1542 129 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 6 false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 10:12:09 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 10:40:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 12922 0486434125 9780486434124 34 4 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512752m/12922.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12922.The_Castle_of_Otranto 5 3 false Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Jan 02 09:50:38 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 13:29:05 -0800 2008
I was given this book to read with the preface, "I was not a fan, but I have a feeling you'd like this." And all of a sudden I was in an old world made new... to me.

The Castle of Otranto has a history as interesting and strange as the tale w/in it'...more...]]> 609044 0140437673 9780140437676 52 5 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176265425m/609044.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609044.The_Castle_of_Otranto 4 4 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 01 19:05:25 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 19:12:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 0 3 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 28 16:00:59 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 16:01:28 -0800 2009 The Castle of Otranto is a fun escape into knights, maidens, curses, magic, dynasties, rivalries, and terror. It was, as Horace Walpole argued in one of his introductions, an attempt to establish a new gothic style of writing. In this way, the novel is comic thrill...more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 1 false Mon Feb 16 12:55:47 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 12:56:42 -0800 2009 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 1 false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 10:09:24 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 10:09:55 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 2 0 false Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:58:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 18:22:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 1 false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 23:32:37 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 17 12:59:13 -0700 2008 2506449 019255302X 9780192553027 1 1 3.09 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2506449.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_story 3 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 14 08:26:46 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 01:46:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 2 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 10:47:05 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 15:42:32 -0800 2009 Badelynge
Manfred is having a really bad day. No really, he's having a really, really bad day. It all starts with his son being crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls out of the sky. And his day is going to get much worse.
The Castle of Otranto was written in 1764 by Horace ...more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 0 false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:38:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 09:38:46 -0700 2009 2
This book was written in 1764, and started the whole Gothic craze that was so popular in the 19th century. But honestly, for a modern reader, scenes that were designed to cause fear and shock now wind up sounding really funny! I mean, take the opening. A father ...more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 1 false Sat Jul 12 11:12:19 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 11:16:27 -0700 2008 609044 0140437673 9780140437676 52 5 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176265425m/609044.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609044.The_Castle_of_Otranto 5 1 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jul 03 18:58:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 22:11:46 -0700 2007 Extremely bizarre and entertaining.
Read this and then read "Northanger Abbey." You'll appreciate Austen's humor so much more.

]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 1 false Thu Feb 28 23:48:15 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 00:59:55 -0800 2008 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jun 16 08:14:40 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 14:38:52 -0700 2009 Otranto wanting only to love it. It's atmosphere - the gloom, the ghosts, the melodrama - was perfectly poised to delight me. But in the end, I could not stomach it: the atmosphere proved too heavy for my palate, the events too ludicrous. I laughed thro...more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 0 false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 19:22:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 20:10:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 0 false Mon Sep 15 10:31:30 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:44:58 -0700 2008
The novel is probably 90% dialogue, which not broken into separate paragraphs, but grouped in multi-page conversations in a single paragr...more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 20:51:22 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 20:58:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 3 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 11:57:56 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 12:18:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 12923 0192834401 9780192834409 818 113 3.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166512753m/12923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12923.The_Castle_of_Otranto_A_Gothic_Story 1 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 05:59:47 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 07:00:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12923