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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.30On 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... -
Walpoliana by Horace Walpole 9780371133712
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371133712Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint -
Three Gothic Novels by Horace Walpole
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The 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,... -
Horace Walpole by Neil Curry 9781910996706
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996706Author Neil CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint -
The Castle Of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9788119203383
Booksplease Price: $20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119203383Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint -
Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9781551113043
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $21.17This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole.Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole's private press at Strawberry Hill, his Gothicized... -
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9781847497598
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.17When 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... -
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9789357312202
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The masterpiece that started the Gothic craze.The Castle of Otranto by Walpole is believed to have begun the Gothic genre. Dark foreboding castles, ghosts, damsels in distress, murder, intrigue, high... -
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 1: With the Rev. William Cole, I by Horace Walpole 9780300006841
Booksplease Price: $100.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.76'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... -
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 24: With Sir Horace Mann, VIII by Horace Walpole 9780300007091
RRP: $100.50Booksplease Price: $98.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300007091Author Horace WalpoleFormat HardbackPage Count 553Imprint -
The Castle of Otranto (Legend Classics) by Horace Walpole
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054906Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Mysterious Mother: a Tragedy by Horace Walpole 9780461713022
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461713022Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint -
The Castle of Otranto,: a Gothic Story by Horace Walpole 9780461172096
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461172096Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint -
El Arte de Los Jardines Modernos by Horace Walpole 9788478447558
Booksplease Price: $14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788478447558Author Horace WalpoleFormat PaperbackImprint -
Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole by Matthew M. Reeve 9780271085883
Booksplease Price: $55.53Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace... -
Madame Du Deffand And Her World Benedetta Craveri 9781870015790
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.98Madame du Deffand (1696-1780) was a minor French aristocrat who, bored by her marriage, threw herself into scandalous relationships with leading noblemen, including the French Regent. She later... -
Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein by Horace Walpole
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Macabre and melodramtic, 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... -
A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole by Robins Robins 9780461340167
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461340167Author Robins RobinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint -
Horace Walpole's Marginal Notes Written in Dr. Maty's Miscellaneous Works and Memoirs of the Earl of Chesterfield, 2 Vols ... 1777. (More Complete) Ed. by R.S. Turner by Robert Samuel Turner 9780461574623
Booksplease Price: $16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461574623Author Robert Samuel TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Im -
The Duchess Countess by Catherine Ostler 9781471172588
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday... -
The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century by Howard Anderson
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $33.55With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached unprecedented... -
Vathek and Other Stories by Malcolm Jack 9780140435306
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights, William Beckford's Vathek and Other Stories is edited with an introduction by Malcolm Jack in Penguin Classics.William Beckford... -
The Castle of Otranto/Nightmare Abbey/Vathek by Various 9781840221848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $4.01Booksplease Price: $3.93With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the... -
The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales by Various 9781435167131
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $33.47The influence of the gothic and its atmosphere of gloom and decay have inspired classics of horror and the supernatural for more than two centuries. The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales... -
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve 9780199549740
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54'Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can enter these gates without my permission.' When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds... -
A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic by Sarah Perry
Booksplease Price: $13.40Introduced by Sarah Perry, the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent. Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery and... -
Bedside Companion for Gardeners: Garden enlightenment for every night of the year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.24An eclectic collection of prose, poetry and practical advice for every day of the year. A mix of fact and fiction, fantasy and experience, the Bedside Companion for Gardeners is a treasure trove of... -
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.87The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from its origins in the late... -
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior 9781400258284
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.09The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected... -
THE GOTHIC TEXT by Marshall Brown 9780804739139 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to a... -
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.21'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction... -
Venice, A Travellers Companion: A Traveller's Reader John Julius Norwich 9781472140302
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ...' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly ...propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back... -
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 9780140436037
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.24Matthew Lewis's Gothic masterpiece, depicting a holy man slowly becoming entangled in a web of sin, The Monk is edited with an introduction by Christopher MacLachlan in Penguin Classics.Savaged by... -
Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records by Keith Dockray 9781781553138
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.82By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror by Angela Wright 9781107566743
Booksplease Price: $47.53In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and... -
Family Fictions: Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1798 by Christopher Flint 9780804741880 [USED COPY]
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $5.09By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the... -
Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger by Susan Bernstein
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and... -
William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist by Timothy Mowl
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71William Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington...