INTRODUCTION.
It is creditable to our English nobility, and a feature
in their character that distinguishes them from their
fellows of most other nations, that, from the first
revival of learning, the...
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Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Biographies (3)
Horace Walpole's literary productions reflect an extraordinary range of talents and interests: author of the first and most influential Gothic novel in English and of the first example of Gothic drama...
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Horace Walpole was a significant figure in literary history, but his reputation would stand even higher if he had excelled in what today are regarded as the "major" genres. He wrote a pioneering book ...
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Horace Walpole is known to literary scholars as the founder of a significant literary genre, the gothic novel, which he initiated with the publication of The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by ...
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Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I
Horace Walpole