| 1928 - 432 páginas
...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands and I grew fond of it ... in short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed... | |
| E.F. Bleiler - 1966 - 356 páginas
...on the uppermost hanister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. ... In short, I was so engrossed with my Tale, which I completed... | |
| Rob Jackaman - 1989 - 344 páginas
...contains: "... I waked one morning in the beginning of last June, from a dream .... In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands . . . ." This account shows that the message obtained, the future model of so many... | |
| Wayne Andrews - 1990 - 198 páginas
...on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it — add that I was very glad to think of anything rather than... | |
| Ronald R. Thomas - 1990 - 324 páginas
...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate."1 Here, at the beginning point of English gothic fiction, Horace Walpole joined the experience... | |
| Susan Wolstenholme - 1993 - 234 páginas
...on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands and I grew fond of it.3 By locating the origin of a Gothic story in a dream, Walpole... | |
| Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - 228 páginas
...keeping with Walpole's repeated characterization of Otranto as ajeu d'esprit, written hurriedly and begun "without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate" (see Walpole to William Cole, 9 March 1785, Correspondence, 1: 88). 98. Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom,... | |
| Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - 1995 - 338 páginas
...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I wanted to say or relate.16 And Mary Shelley, in her 1831 Preface to Frankenstein, describes how the... | |
| Hendrik van Gorp - 1998 - 124 páginas
...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. Ook in andere brieven (om aan Rev. William Mason) biedt hij ahw zijn excuses aan voor de haast waarin... | |
| Edward Larrissy - 1999 - 266 páginas
...on the upper banister of the great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' Walpole to the Rev. William Cole, 9 March 1765, cited in Introduction to The Castle ofOtranto, ed.... | |
| |