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It explains the Gothic villa Strawberry Hill, Walpole’s private printing activities, and the origin of the novel from a dream. The preface frames the work as a discovered ancient manuscript, printed at Naples in 1529, and discusses the plausible historical period of the story.","The Castle ofOtranto  \nHORACE WALPOLE  \n1886  \nN2C3  \n3757  \n另  \nUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO31761008796062  \n11  \nTHECASTLE OF OTRANTO.  \nBY  \nHORACE WALPOLE.eari o厂刚Orfoc  \nCASSELL &COMPANY,LIMITED;  \nLONDOY,PARIS,NEI YOREdMELBOURNE.  \nPR3757W₂C31886  \n710047  \n# INTRODUCTION.\n\nHoRACE WALPOLE was the youngest son of SirRobert Walpole,the great statesman,who diedEarl of Orford.He was born in 1717,the yearin which his father resigned ofice,remaining inopposition for about three years before his returnto a long tenure of power.Horace Walpole waseducated at Eton,where he formed a schoolfriendship with Thomas Gray,who was but a fewmonths older.In 1739 Gray was travelling-com-panion with Walpole in France and Italy untilthey dliffered and parted;but the friendship wasafterwards renewed,and remained firm to the end.Horace Walpole went from ·Eton to King'sCollege,Cambridge,and entered Parliament in1741,the year before his father's final resignationand acceptance of an earldom.  His way of lifewas made easy to him.As Usher of the Exche-quer;Comptroller of the Pipe,and Clerk of theEstreats in the Exchequer,he received nearly two  \n22  \n24.  \nthousand a year for doing nothing,lived with hisfather,and amused himself.  \nHorace Walpole idled,and amused himself witlhthe small life of the fashionable world to which hewas proud of belonging,though he had a quick eyefor its vanities.He had social wit,and liked toput it to small uses.But he was not an emptyidler,and there were seasons when he could becomea sharp judge of himself.“I am sensible,”hewrote to his most intimate friend,“I am sensibleof having more follies and weaknesses and fewerreal good qualities than most men.I sometimesreflect on this,though,Iown,too seldom.I alwayswant to begin acting like a man,and a sensible one,which I think I might be if I would.”He haddeep home affections,and,under many polite affec-tations,plenty of good sense.  \nHorace Walpole's father died in 1745.Theeldest son,who succeeded to the earldom,died in1751,and left a son,George,who was for a timeinsane,and lived until 1791.As George left nochild,the title and estates passed to Horace Walpole,then seventy-four years old,and the only uncle whosurvived.Horace Walpole thus became Earl ofOrford during the last six years of his life.As tothe title,he said that he felt himself being called  \nnames in his old age.He died unmarried,in theyear 1797,at the age of eighty.  \nHe had turned his house at Strawberry Hill,bythe Thames,near Twickenham,into a Gothic villa—eighteenth-century Gothic—and amused himselfby spending freely upon its adornment with suchthings as were then fashionable as objects of taste.But he delighted also in his flowers and his trellisesof roses,and the quiet Thames.When confinedby gout to his London house in Arlington Street,flowers from Strawberry Hill and a bird werenecessary consolations.He set up also at Straw-berry Hill a private printing press,at which heprinted his friend Gray's poems,also in 1758 hisown“Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authorsof England,\"and five volumes of“Anecdotes ofPainting in England,\"between 1762 and 1771.  \nHoraceWalpole produced The Castle of Otranto in1765,at the mature age of forty-eight.It was sug-gested by a dream from which he said he waked onemorning,and of which“all I could recover was,that I had thought myself in an ancient castle(avery natural dream for a head like mine,filled withGothic story),and that on the uppermost banisterof a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.In the evening I sat down and began to write,  \nwithout knowing in the least what I intended to sayor relate.”So began the tale which professed to betranslated by“William Marshal,gentleman,fromthe Italian of Onuphro Muralto,canon of theChurch of St.Nicholas,at Otranto.”It was writtenin two months.Walpole's friend Gray reportedto him that at Cambridge the book made“some ofthem cry a little,and all in general afraid to go tebed o'nights.”The Castle of Otranto was,in itsown way,an early sign","cbCaicYoTfEtas2M","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicYoTfEtas2M","pdf",6594427,3,1,211,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Walpole’s life and education\n## Strawberry Hill and printing\n## Writing The Castle of Otranto and its reception\n# Preface to the First Edition\n## Discovery and printing (Naples, 1529)\n## Proposed historical setting and style","[{\"question\":\"Who was Horace Walpole, and what background does the introduction give about him?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction describes Walpole as the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, notes his education at Eton and Cambridge, and summarizes his entry into Parliament and his official roles.\"},{\"question\":\"How did The Castle of Otranto originate, according to the text?\",\"answer\":\"Walpole is said to have produced the novel in 1765 after waking from a dream involving an ancient castle and a gigantic armoured hand; 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