"No, Bianca; his heart was ever a stranger to me--but he is my father, and I must not complain."
The Castle of Otranto
Twenty entries in the ESTC (1764, 1765, 1766, 1769, 1770, 1781, 1782, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1800). <br>
<br>
Second edition of 1765 subtitled "A Gothic Story." Third edition in 1766; sixth edition by Dodsley in 1791. Several new editions in 1790s. See first edition: <u>The Castle of Otranto, a Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto</u> (London: Tho. Lownds, 1764). &lt;<a href-"http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312976076&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
<br>
Reading Horace Walpole, <u>The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story</u>. World's Classics Paperback, ed. W. S. Lewis (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1982).