Walpole: 153 books

As the invaluable present I am making to the world may not please all tastes, from the gravity of the matter, the solidity of the reasoning, and the deep learning contained in the ensuing sheets, it is necessary to make some apology for producing this work in so trifling an age, when nothing will...

Jeremy is the story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle; told with affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.

About thirty years ago there was at the top of the right-hand side of Orange Street, in Polchester, a large stone house. I say “was”; the shell of it is still there, and the people who now live in it are quite unaware, I suppose, that anything has happened to the inside of it, except that they are...

“Hugh Seymour” is the protagonist among a slew of characters appearing in this partly autobiographical 1915 collection of sketches. Meet Enery, Bim Rochester, Young John Scarlet, and other children living around a quiet old square in London. Hugh lives as a paying guest in various houses, noticing...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey Frankenstein...

Captivating tale of romance and suspense amid a family saga.

Thomas Singer is eleven years old. Soon, on his twelfth birthday, his father will present him with his first shotgun and take him on his first deer hunting trip. Thomas longed to go hunting all his young life, until the day he saw poachers shooting a deer, until the day he meet Emma. That day,...

This book is about the tactical reconnaissance mark of the Hunter FR10 and its front line operation between 1961-70. With the Hunter already well proven in ground attack role this variant was an ideal platform for the excellent Vinten F95 strip aperture cameras. The heavy armament of four 30-mm Aden...

Considerato il romanzo ad aver creato il genere gotico e precursore della letteratura horror, Il Castello di Otranto narra le vicissitudini della nobile famiglia di Manfredi, signore di Otranto, e dell'antica profezia che ne causerà lutti e sciagure.

Horace Walpoles Kurzroman „The Castle of Otranto“, der zuerst anonym als angebliche Übersetzung eines spätmittelalterlichen italienischen Manuskripts veröffentlicht wurde, prägt seit zweieinhalb Jahrhunderten die Romangeschichte und ist so zeitlos, dass er jede Lesergeneration wieder aufs...