Walpole: 153 books
by Horace Walpole
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
‘Il castello di Otranto’ è il primo romanzo gotico propriamente detto. Walpole inaugura un filone letterario inesauribile che arriva sino ai giorni nostri, con canoni da lui ben definiti: castello, labirinto, sotterranei, scene notturne, damigelle in pericolo, fughe, sesso, soprannaturale. Manfredo,...
by Hugh Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
While working for the Red Cross during World War I, Walpole rescued a wounded soldier under fire. He drew on his experiences for this 1916 novel featuring a love triangle between a nurse, a weak English physician, and a brutal Russian doctor. Critics praised the book for showing the Russian view of the war.
by Horace Walpole
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2019
Il castello di Otranto, scritto in poco più di un mese, venne pubblicato nel 1764 sotto lo pseudonimo di William Marshal. Walpole infatti, per timore che non fosse ben accolto dal pubblico, lo fece inizialmente passare per la traduzione di un manoscritto cinquecentesco italiano. Può essere considerato...
Jeremy at Crale
His Friends, His Ambitions and His One Great Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2019
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America.
by Hugh Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2019
The book begins: There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlet's favorite. Thirty years ago-these chronicles are of the year 1894-the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark, chill, odorful caverns hissing...
Fortitude (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Being a True and Faithful Account of the Education of an Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“It isn’t life that matters, but the courage you bring to it!” begins this early (1913) novel, one of Walpole’s first great successes, which has been described as a fairytale romance. It tells the semiautobiographical story of a naïve young author in the making.
Hitler's Revenge Weapons
The Final Blitz of London
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and nighttime raids by the then mighty Luftwaffe; raids which killed some 20,000 people and destroyed or damaged one million homes during what came to be known as the London Blitz. A ‘baby...
by Horace Walpole
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Fürst Manfred sieht seine Erbfolge als bereits gesichert an. Doch eine dunkle Prophezeiung kündigt Verderben an. Als sein Sohn Conrad am Tage seiner Hochzeit von einem gigantischen Helm erschlagen wird, ist dies nur die erste unheilvolle Begebenheit, die sich zuträgt. Das düstere Gemäuer scheint...
HALLOWEEN Boxed Set
550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...
by Horace Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The Gothic masterwork that revolutionized popular fiction
When Prince Manfred of Otranto loses his son in a strange and terrifying accident, he fears that an ancient prophecy has come to pass and his family will be stripped of its castle and lands before he can produce a new heir. Desperate...
The Greatest Gothic Classics
Frankenstein, The Castle of Otranto, St. Irvyne, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman, The Man-Wolf, The Beetle, The Phantom of the Opera...
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Frankenstein The Orphan of the Rhine Nightmare Abbey The Tell-Tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of...
DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition
Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wuthering Heights, Sweeney Todd, The Orphan of the Rhine, The Headless Horseman & many more
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Who doesn't love a bit of surprise, danger, eerie atmosphere, and just the right hint of romance! So, here's presenting to you our best ever gothic collection, with all the well known classics, all the hidden gems, and lots of surprises for all the fans of chills, darkness and mystery out there. Also,...
by Algernon Blackwood, Alan Graham, John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading of many hundreds...
Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...