Horace Walpole (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1890 biography of the English historian, politician, man of letters, and author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), is written in a light and anecdotal styleyet with sound literary judgment. &quote;Walpole has an almost perfect memoirist in Mr. Dobson,&quote; was the verdict of the New York Times.