At the beginning of the story, Manfred impatiently awaits the marriage of his sickly son, Conrad, to the princess Isabella. The manuscript tells the story of Manfred, a prince of Otranto. The preface to the first edition suggests that the manuscript was written sometime between 10 (during the Crusades), “or not long afterwards,” and subsequently printed in Naples in 1529.
Walpole presents The Castle of Otranto as the English translation of a recently discovered manuscript. It is considered the first Gothic novel in the English language, and it is often said to have founded the horror story as a legitimate literary form.
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