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El castillo de Otranto, cuya acción se desarrolla en la Italia medieval, narra la historia del tirano Manfred, cuya estirpe arrastra una maldición desde que su abuelo usurpara el poder del castillo a sus legítimos poseedores. Manfred trata de perpetuar su herencia casando a su débil hijo Conrad con la princesa Isabella, pero poco antes de la boda ocurre un accidente fatal de origen aparentemente mágico que frustra sus designios. A partir de este suceso, se desencadenarán una serie de misteriosos fenómenos sobrenaturales y pasiones encendidas que tendrán como escenario el asfixiante y siniestro decorado del castillo, uno de los principales «personajes» del relato: puertas chirriantes, pasadizos oscuros y criptas secretas hacen su aparición por primera vez. Había nacido la literatura de terror.
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Castles, Gothic revival (Literature), Translations into Russian, Vampires, Fantasy fiction, Spanish language, Fiction, Gothic literature, open_syllabus_project, Inheritance and succession, English Horror tales, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Italy, fiction, Fiction, horror, Church work with prostitutes, Lay missionaries, Conduct of life, Women, Fiction, historical, general, Castle of Otranto (Walpole, Horace), Gothic fiction (literary genre), Fiction, gothic, English literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPeople
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The Castle of Otranto: a Gothic story
2014, Oxford University Press
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The castle of Otranto: a gothic story / Horace Walpole ; edited by W.S. Lewis with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery.
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
January 2004, Barnes & Noble
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The castle of Otranto: a Gothic story
1791, Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, bookseller of London
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This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his numerous works. - Back cover.
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