by Horace Walpole · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789728791179
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«Contos Hieroglíficos» is Horace Walpole's collection of short stories, published by Cavalo de Ferro in paperback (60 pages, in Portuguese).
«Contos Hieroglíficos», by Horace Walpole, breaks with eighteenth-century narrative conventions and moves into absurd and satirical territory. Among strange fables, the book visits exotic settings in Arabia, Ireland, China, Venice, Jordan and Muslim Spain, showing Walpole's playful and subversive streak.
Translation by Nuno Batalha; the original work was published in 1785 as Hieroglyphic Tales.
A brief collection of Gothic and satirical tales, suitable for readers interested in eighteenth-century experimental literature.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
