The Castle of Otranto (Walpole Horace)(Paperback)

Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein (Walpole Horace)(Paperback)

Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek, and Shelley's Frankenstein The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the

The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Walpole Horace)(Paperback)

'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole

The Castle of Otranto (Walpole Horace)(Paperback)

The founding work of Gothic fiction On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is already

The Castle of Otranto (Walpole Horace)(Paperback)

When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his line is at an end, declares that he will divorce his wife and marry his late son's intended bride. Soon, however, this planned union brings about a series of supernatural

The Old English Baron (Reeve Clara)(Paperback)

The Old English Baron is an ambitious rewriting of Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, transporting the trappings of the Gothic to medieval England. The noble hero endures many adventures of romantic horror in order to obtain his rightful heritage, and the story concludes with a dramatic day of

Four Gothic Novels - The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein (Walpole Horace)(Paperback / softback)

Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate

Selected Letters (Walpole Horace)(Pevná vazba)

Offers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry

Confessions Of The Old Wizard: The Autobiography Of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (Schacht Hjalmar Horace Greeley)(Paperback)

The Complete Odes and Epodes (Horace)(Paperback)

Horace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary affairs, Horace's verse is best read in terms of his changing relationship to the public sphere

Crashing Heat (Castle) (Castle Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The tenth Nikki Heat novel, set in the universe of the Castle TV

Castles of the World (Jestice Phyllis G.)(Paperback)

From the Highlands of Scotland to the plains of northern India, Castles of the World is a beautiful examination of past worlds viewed through strongholds that continue to enrich the modern landscape. Presented in a handy, pocket-sized format, arranged chronologically, and illustrated with more

Castle (Kafka Franz)(Paperback / softback)

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where

Essays Virginia Woolf Vol.6 (Woolf Virginia)(Pevná vazba)

Presents essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. This title is suitable for for students, common readers and scholars

The Satires of Horace and Persius (Horace)(Paperback)

Inspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert Frost, the writings of Horace and Persius have had a powerful influence on later Western literature. The Satires of Persius are highly idiosyncratic, containing a courageous attack on the poetry and morals of his wealthy

The Interior Castle: Or the Mansions (St Teresa of Avila)(Paperback)

The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila presents a remarkable description of the entire spiritual life from the first release from mortal sin into Sanctifying Grace through the Mystical Marriage of the soul with Christ as a journey through what she called The Interior Castle. She sees the soul

Allen Brown's English Castles (Brown R. Allen)(Paperback)

A reissue of the classic guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of England and Wales, built after the arrival of the Normans. Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen Brown. His classic English Castles, renamed here to

Castle Waiting (Medley Linda)(Paperback)

Castle Waiting is the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, it is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil -- but about being a

The Secret of the Irish Castle (Montefiore Santa)(Paperback)

Satires and Epistles (Horace)(Paperback)

Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contemporaries, Horace's Satires are stuffed full of comic vignettes, moral insights, and his pervasive humanity. Boasting famous episodes such as the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse and the grotesque dinner party given by the

Horace - Poems (Horace)(Pevná vazba)

Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet

Lord Weary's Castle: The Mills of the Kavanaughs (Lowell Robert)(Paperback)

A combined edition of the poet's early work, including Lord Weary's Castle, a collection of forty-two short poems, which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, and The Mills of the Kavanaughs, a narrative poem of six hundred lines, and five other long

The 50 Greatest Castles and Palaces of the World (Pickup Gilly)(Paperback)

Explore the legends, history and secrets of great castles and palaces around the

Windsor Castle: An Illustrated History (Hartshorne Pamela)(Paperback)

Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest occupied castle in the world, has been a site of fundamental historical, cultural, and architectural importance for nearly one thousand years. This new popular history of the castle explains how a Norman motte-and-bailey castle established by William the

In the Castle of My Skin (Lamming George)(Paperback / softback)