Contes hiéroglyphiques

Horace Walpole

Publié par Mercure De France, le 14 novembre 1995

96 pages

Résumé

Horatio Walpole, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. His literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. From Walpole's own 1785 introduction: "The Hieroglyphic Tales were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born. We do not trouble the reader with these attestations, as we are sure everybody will believe them as much as if they had seen them. . . ."

Il castello di Otranto

Contes hieroglyphiques

Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes

Lettres de Horace Walpole, A(c)Crites a Ses Amis Pendant Ses Voyages En France (1739-1775) (A0/00d.1872)

The castle of Otranto

Hieroglyphic Tales

The Castle of Otranto

Le Château d'Otrante

Critiques