...very glad to think of anything rather than politics. In short I was so engrossed with my tale . . . that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, til half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not...

...Castle of Otranto. The idea for the work, he later claimed, came to him in a dream. He wrote quickly ('one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea', he recalled, '. . . till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary,...

...than politics - In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.28 The dream, pointedly, is 'a very natural...

...than politics — In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning.7 As he recognized, the surreal dream image drew on his intense fantasies about the Middle...

...than politics — In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. [The first readers of the novel were willing...

...than politics. In sliort, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness ; but...

...than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening, I wrote from the time I had drunk...not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking in the middle of a paragraph. You will laugh at my earnestness; but if...

...tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drank my tea (about six o'clock) till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda...

...than politics. In short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hands and fingers were so weary that I could not...