The Letters of Walpole (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Horace Walpole
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Letters
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Letters
- Subjects: Justice, Authors or writers, Trials, Novelists, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Funeral rites or ceremonies, French Revolution
Critical Evaluation:
No student, not even a general reader, interested in the eighteenth century and its culture in England can afford to overlook Horace Walpole and his works. Walpole’s life spanned eighty years of that century, and the man himself engaged in most of the activities of the times in one way or another. His interests lay in many areas—political, literary, artistic, antiquarian, horticultural, architectural, and social. He was novelist, playwright, historian, member of Parliament, the son of a prime minister, an arbiter of artistic excellence, a publisher, a...
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