{"product_id":"9781411467248","title":"The Castle of Otranto (Barnes \u0026 Noble Digital Library): A Gothic Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.\u003c\/b\u003e With its fantastic apparitions, its ominous prophecies, and its complicated underground passages, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e heralded a new genre, the Gothic novel, still present in our literary landscape today. \u003cb\u003eWalpole's\u003c\/b\u003e novel accomplished what no other novel had attempted before: to make readers enjoy what they shuddered to read, in other words to find beauty amidst literary materials ostensibly laced with ugliness and horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet, far from being the fruit of deliberate planning, \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e was born of a dream that came to haunt Walpole's sleep one night in June 1764. The next day, all that Walpole could recall of the dream was that \"I had thought myself in an ancient castle. . .and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.\" Later that evening, Walpole \"sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.\" A classic was born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126259499248,"sku":"9781411467248","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411467248_p0.jpg?v=1769896710","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411467248","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}