Castle of Otranto (Version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Gothic Fiction

Authors: Horace Walpole In Year : 1764

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Castle of Otranto (Version 2)

Introductory
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel, a genre appealing to a taste for terror and set in a remote past when prodigies and magic can be imagined to have existed, with violent contrasts between purity and ungoverned passions. The author represents the tale as having been translated from a black letter Italian volume of the 15th century but describing much earlier events. This fictional antiquity and the depiction of mysterious wonders, dark subterranean passages, fearsome apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and especially a savage threat to spotless innocence are all typical of this genre, which does not assure a reader of a happy ending. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)