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The Castle of Otranto/The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother

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From: Gothic Studies
Date: 20050501
Author:Haggerty, George E

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, edited by Michael Gamer (New York: Penguin, 2001).

The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother, by Horace Walpole, edited by Frederick S. Frank (Peterborough, ONT: Broadview, 2003).

As Michael Gamer mentions at the opening of his introduction to The Castle of Otranto, 'since its first publication in 1764, The Castle of Otranto has rarely, if ever, been out of print, and over 130 editions precede [his own]' (xiii). These two new editions nevertheless add a great deal to what was available to Walpole scholars and students of eighteenth-century ...

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