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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volumes 26-27 (The Set): With Sir Horace Mann, x + XI
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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 31: With Hannah More, Lady Browne, Lady Mary Coke, Lady Hervey, Mary Hamilton, Lady George Lennox, Anne Pitt, and Lady Suffolk
These two volumes of Horace Walpole's correspondence illustrate the breadth and variety of Walpole's friendships. The rakes, wits, and politicians of Volume 30 are the intimates of his younger days as an active member of the Young Club at White's and of Parliament, although correspondences with George Selwyn and Henry Fox continue until their deaths. Walpole's subjects in these letters are politics and gossip, occasionally dispensed with asperity and witty allusions to entertain Sir Charles Williams and Lord Lincoln. Volume 31 shows Walpole the attendant of wise and spirited dowagers and later, of pretty young women with good minds and literary tastes. Here he is soliciting the reminiscences of Lady Suffolk, comforting and entertaining Lady Hervey, squiring Lady Browne, teasing Lady Mary Coke and Hannah More, dispensing gaiety and gifts to all.Eighty-one of the letters from Walpole in these two volumes are printed for the first time and seven others first printed in full; the correspondences with Lord Lincoln, Selwyn, Hannah More, and Lady Browne are particularly rich in this new material. Seventy-seven other Walpole letters, although printed in supplements to the previous edition of Walpole letters, are integrated here for the first time with the main body of his correspondence, as are all of sixty-three letters to him. The appendices contain several of his biographical sketched and other writings as well as his will.
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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 17: With Sir Horace Mann, I
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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 9: With George Mantagu, I
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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 3: With Madame Du Deffand, and Wiart, I
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Oxford University Press Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein
Macabre and melodramtic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences. This collection illustrates the range and the attraction of the Gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is also a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.
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Yale University Press The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 24: With Sir Horace Mann, VIII
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