A01=Horace Walpole
Author_Horace Walpole
Category=FBC
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Nonsuch Classics
Product details
- ISBN 9781845884994
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 124 x 168mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Purporting to be based on a (fictitious) sixteenth-century manuscript containing a mediaeval story about spooky goings - on in an Italian castle, this story opens with the death of the heir of the castle of Otrantro, on both his wedding-day and his birthday, crushed by an immense helmet.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's 'first prime minister.' Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was an antiquary, an historian, a Member of Parliament, a novelist and a printer. He famously remodelled his house at Strawberry Hill in the Gothic style and in 1791 succeeded to the title of fourth Earl of Orford.
