The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

EN·~3 hours·8 chapters

Chapters

8 total

INTRODUCTION

4:23

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

6:57

SONNET TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARY COKE.

0:34

CHAPTER I.

46:22

CHAPTER II.

43:42

CHAPTER III.

42:26

CHAPTER IV.

38:58

CHAPTER V.

34:55

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Description

First Gothic novel

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Duration

~3 hours (209K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

Oct 1, 1996

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

Subjects

Horror tales Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Gothic fiction PR

About the author

Horace Walpole

1717–1797

Best known for helping launch Gothic fiction, this witty 18th-century writer also turned his own home into one of England’s most famous eccentric houses. His letters, taste for art and history, and love of the dramatic made him one of the most memorable literary personalities of his age.

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