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The Castle of Otranto (Unabridged edition)

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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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Naxos AudioBooks
1843798654 / 9781843798651
CD-Audio
823.6
28/07/2014
United Kingdom
English
Classics
4 CDs (5 hr.)
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Read by Neville Jason.