The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole - Walpole, Horace
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The Castle Of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, "that the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line,…mehr

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The Castle Of Otranto tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. The book begins on the wedding-day of his sickly son Conrad and princess Isabella. Shortly before the wedding, however, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above. This inexplicable event is particularly ominous in light of an ancient prophecy, "that the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it". Manfred, terrified that Conrad's death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by marrying Isabella himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, whom he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture. The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier.
Autorenporträt
Horatio Walpole, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician who served as the 4th Earl of Orford from 24 September 1717 until 2 March 1797. The son of Sir Robert and Catherine Walpole, a former British prime minister, was Sir Robert Walpole. He attended King's College in Cambridge and Eton College for his education. While on a magnificent tour of France and Italy in 1739 with his Eton schoolmate, the poet Thomas Gray, they got into arguments and split up. They subsequently made amends, and Walpole remained a fervent supporter of Gray's poetry for the rest of his life. The Castle of Otranto, which Walpole published in 1764 under a pseudonym, was effective in bringing romanticism to contemporary literature. The almost 4,000 letters in Walpole's private correspondence provide a survey of the culture, etiquette, and tastes of his day. Horace was chosen to represent the corrupt borough of Callington in Cornwall as a member of parliament. On topics like abolitionism and the protests of the American colonists, he was a traditional liberal. At the Church of St. Martin at Tours on the grounds of Houghton Hall, Horace Walpole was interred alongside his father, Sir Robert Walpole.