by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Mary Shelley · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430363
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«Three Gothic Novels» is the anthology of gothic novels by Horace Walpole, William Beckford and Mary Shelley, published by Penguin Classics in paperback.
The volume brings together «The Castle of Otranto» (1765), by Horace Walpole, «Vathek» (1786), by William Beckford, and «Frankenstein» (1818), by Mary Shelley. These are three classics of gothic horror: a castle, an oriental tale echoing «The Arabian Nights» and the story of the creature created by a scientist.
Text in English; 512 pages. Introduction by Mario Praz and edited by Peter Fairclough.
For readers of classics and the gothic genre, with an interest in the origins of literary horror.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
