Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke by Walpole, Horace

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781101907894)

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Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke by Walpole, Horace

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke

$32.00
Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke by Walpole, Horace

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke

$32.00
Format: Hardcover
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A new and newly annotated selection of letters--the only selected edition available in hardcover--from the English eighteenth-century historian, novelist, and politician whose correspondence is one of the most admired in English literature.

Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture. He wrote to his numerous correspondents on these and other topics in prose that is celebrated for its charm, eloquence, and wit. This new Everyman's edition offers an extensive selection of Walpole's letters, helpfully arranged by subject so the reader can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill. This edition offers new annotations throughout, with introductions to its various sections and a general introduction on Walpole as a letter writer. In addition, the text of the letters has been corrected and previously excised passages have been restored.

Author: Horace Walpole
ISBN-10: 1101907894
ISBN-13: 9781101907894
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2017
Pages: 696
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.70d
By Horace Walpole
By Horace Walpole
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HORATIO WALPOLE, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, printer/publisher, and Whig politician. He wrote the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, and is famous for his correspondence and for his Gothic Revival villa, Strawberry Hill, and its vast art and book collections.

STEPHEN CLARKE is a leading Walpole scholar. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquities, an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Liverpool, and a trustee both of Strawberry Hill and of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University.

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