Three gothic novels

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) | Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) | Beckford, William (1760-1844)

Fairclough, Peter. Éditeur commercial | Praz, Mario (1896-1982)

Edité par Penguin books - 1988

This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels
The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three; in ots blending of two kinds of romanticism, ancient and modern, it is a precursor of Romanticism.
Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights, and is a narrative tour de force.
The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

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