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Horace Walpole (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Name: Horace Walpole (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author: Austin Dobson
ISBN: 9781411453814

by Austin Dobson

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Overview

This 1890 biography of the English historian, politician, man of letters, and author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), is written in a light and anecdotal style—yet with sound literary judgment. "Walpole has an almost perfect memoirist in Mr. Dobson," was the verdict of the New York Times.

About the Author, Austin Dobson

Henry Austin Dobson (18401921), known as Austin Dobson, was a distinguished English poet and essayist. He published his first collection of poems, Vignettes in Rhyme, in 1873. In addition to poetry, he also wrote a number of biographies, including studies of Henry Fielding, Richard Steele, Fanny Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, and Horace Walpole.