Horace Walpole Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Omnibus

  1. The Castle of Otranto / The Old English Baron (2022)

Collections

  1. Heiroglyphic Tales (1785)

Non fiction

  1. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (1768)
  2. A Description of the Villa at Strawberry-Hill (1784)
  3. Anecdotes of Painting in England (1871)
  4. Correspondence with George Montague (1941)
  5. Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann (1967)
  6. The Best Letters of Horace Walpole (2008)
  7. Selected Letters (2017)

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The Castle of Otranto

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages of Christianity; but the language and conduct have nothing that savours of barbarism. The style is the purest Italian. If the story was written near the time when it is supposed to have happened, it must have been between 1095, the era of the first Crusade, and 1243, the date of the last, or not long afterwards. There is no other circumstance in the work that can lead us to guess at the period in which the scene is laid: the names of the actors are evidently fictitious, and probably disguised on purpose: yet the Spanish names of the domestics seem to indicate that this work was not composed until the establishment of the Arragonian Kings in Naples had made Spanish appellations familiar in that country. The beauty of the diction, and the zeal of the author moderated, however, by singular judgment concur to make me think that the date of the composition was little antecedent to that of the impression. Letters were then in their most flourishing state in Italy, and contributed to dispel the empire of superstition, at that time so forcibly attacked by the reformers.

Heiroglyphic Tales

Horace/Horatio Walpole, 1717 1797, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and cousin of Lord Nelson. His Letters are highly readable, and give a vivid picture of the more intellectual part of the aristocracy of his period. He was born in London, the youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole. He was educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge. Following his father’s politics, he was a devotee of King George II and Queen Caroline, siding with them against their son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, about whom Walpole wrote spitefully in his memoirs. His father was created Earl of Orford in 1742. Horace’s elder brother, the 2nd Earl of Orford passed the title on to his son, the 3rd Earl of Orford. When the 3rd Earl died unmarried, Horace Walpole became the 4th Earl of Orford. In 1764, he published his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, setting a literary trend to go with the architecture. From 1762 on, he published his Anecdotes of Painting in England, and in 1785 he published his Hieroglyphic Tales.

Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third

Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley Publication date: 1768 Subjects: Great Britain Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books. com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

The Best Letters of Horace Walpole

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