...the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto". — „The following work", heisst es dann in der Vorrede, „was found in the library of an ancient Catholic...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529". Mit Hilfe aller dieser Mittel erreichte Walpole seinen Zweck vollkommen; niemand ahnte im entferntesten,...

...composition of a monk in the Middle Ages. Nor did he scruple to assure his readers that it had been found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, and printed at Naples in black letter in 1529. Yet this is the man who declares, " that all the House...

...under the following preface, which, if not intended, was at least calculated to deceive many : — " The following work was found in the library of an...north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black-letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. . . . The style is...

...colour, such as the pretence by Horace Walpole that the Castle of Otranlo was "a translation of a work found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England, . . . printed in Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529 " (Preface to first cd tu. in 1704)...

...the hand, Walpole says he saw in a dream. In the preface to the first edition he professes that the work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the North of England, in black letter, bearing date 1529, and is of opinion that the date of the composition was little antecedent...

...manuscript of a certain " Onuphrio Muralto." To mislead the public Walpole had written in his preface : " The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...an original composition, or under the author's own name. "The following work", declares the preface, "was found in the library of an ancient catholic family...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." On the title-page we read that it has been translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian...

...an original composition, or under the author's own name. "The following work", declares the preface, "was found in the library of an ancient catholic family...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." On the title-page we read that it has been translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian...

...fear and of pity, must be awarded to the author of The Castle of Otranto. Preface to the First Edition The following work was found in the library of an...at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in...

...modernité qui est encore la nôtre. M. BARIDON UNIVERSITE DE DIJON (1) Vathek, Oxford paperbacks, p. 1. (2) "The following work was found in the library of an ancient catholic family in the north of England", Préface de la 1ère édition. "It was an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and...