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The Castle of Otranto
- Author
- Horace Walpole
- Narrator
- Neville Jason
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 August 2014
- Run Time
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
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- Author
- Horace Walpole
- Narrator
- Neville Jason
- Duration
- 4 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 August 2014
- ISBN
- 9781843798668
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
The Castle of Otranto is regarded as the first Gothic novel. The son of Manfred, Prince of Otranto, is mysteriously killed on his wedding day by a huge helmet. The event leads to a fast-paced story of jealous passion, intrigue, murder and supernatural phenomena unfolding in an atmosphere of thunderclaps, moonlight and dark castle walls – mirroring the inner turmoils of the characters themselves. Horace Walpole’s tale, an immediate success when it first appeared in 1764, is a classic of its genre.
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