The complete online text of The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.

Horace Walpole was a significant figure in literary history, but his reputation would stand even higher if he had excelled in what today are regarded as the "major" genres. He wrote a pioneering book which initiated the Gothic novel; he produced a high-f...

Horace Walpole is known to literary scholars as the founder of a significant literary genre, the gothic novel, which he initiated with the publication of The Castle of Otranto, A Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent. From the Original Italian of On...

Horace Walpole's literary productions reflect an extraordinary range of talents and interests: author of the first and most influential Gothic novel in English and of the first example of Gothic drama, he was also a poet, an indefatigable letter writer,...

What does it mean to talk about sexuality in the eighteenth century? What can historians of sexuality accomplish without the keyhole testimonies that prove our subjects had sex with members of their own gender? Scholars often, for obvious reasons, ignore the nagging sense that...

DURHAM -- Mr. Horace Earl Evans of 534 Montclair Drive, Burlington died on August 1, 2006 at Duke medical Center, Durham. Born in Alamance County, he was the son of Matthew Evans and Mrs. Pauline Thompson Evans Leath, both deceased. His wife for...