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    Horace Walpole

    HORATIO WALPOLE, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, printer/publisher, and Whig politician. He wrote the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, and is famous for his correspondence and for his Gothic Revival villa, Strawberry Hill, and its vast art and book collections.
    Three Gothic Novels
    Three Gothic Novels
    The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
    Horace Walpole , William Beckford , Mary Shelley
    9780140430363
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 30, 1968
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Three Gothic Novels
    Three Gothic Novels
    The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
    Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Mary Shelley
    9780140430363
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 30, 1968
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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