Download or read book Once Told Tales of Walpole written by Walpole Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hieroglyphic Tales written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, absurd, satirical, and disturbing--these stories are Horace Walpole's most original, yet least known writings These short tales can claim to be the first surrealist writings in English--and remain some of the strangest fiction in all literature. They were originally published in 1785 in an edition of six copies, all of which Walpole kept for himself. An extra story is included, which was preserved only in manuscript. Truly bizarre, Walpole's stories defy the fictional conventions of his day, beginning with an often-imitated mock preface explaining that the stories were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered.

Download or read book The Castle of Otranto Illustrated written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and 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

Download or read book Horace Walpole A memoir written by Austin Dobson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, the man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He was also famous for the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which became a valuable source of information on the political views and cultural views of intellectuals in the pre-Victorian era.

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Download or read book The Men Who Lost America written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Download or read book The Unreformed House of Commons written by Edward Porritt and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Gothic Novels written by Horace Walpole and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1974-06-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

Download or read book The Tarn written by Hugh Walpole and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of two friends with quite different temperaments, in which one hates the other, though keeps it very well hidden. The story ends badly for both though it is how the final death happens which makes this a suitably weird story.

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Download or read book the unreformed house of commons written by Edward Porritt and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1909 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The letters of Horace Walpole ed by P Cunningham written by Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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