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HORACE WALPOLE (1717 - 1797) English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian, essayist, playwright, and letter writer. One of the most flamboyant personalities in eighteenth-century English letters, Walpole is often considered the outstanding chronicler and correspondent of his era.
Horace Walpole, właśc. Horatio Walpole 4. hrabia Orford (ur. 24 września 1717 w Londynie, zm. 2 marca 1797 tamże) – angielski pisarz i arystokrata, syn Roberta Walpole’a, pierwszego premiera Wielkiej Brytanii. Był jednym z twórców gotycyzmu. Od 1791 był hrabią Orford. Od 1741 zasiadał w brytyjskim parlamencie.
20 gru 2010 · The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published for the first time in 1764 and called by his author “a wild story”, gave rise to gothic story, which became one of the most important horror “forefathers”. Walpole’s intention was to rejuvenate an old literary genre, the romance.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
The Count of Narbonne: A Tragedy, in Five Acts Horace Walpole and Robert Jephson 65 downloads. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 3 (of 4) Horace Walpole 57 downloads. Displaying results 1–19. Project Gutenberg offers 74,430 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole, published under a pseudonym in 1764. It is considered the first Gothic novel in the English language, and it is often said to have founded the horror story as a legitimate literary form.
16 sty 2014 · For a very long time Horace Walpole has been viewed by many scholarly critics as a similar sort of oddity. His literary productions were so varied, so numerous, and so uneven in quality that he defied placement in a single area of interest.
