Hieroglyphic Tales

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From Walpole's own 1785 introduction: "The Hieroglyphic Tales were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born. We do not trouble the reader with these attestations, as we are ...
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From Walpole's own 1785 introduction: "The Hieroglyphic Tales were undoubtedly written a little before the creation of the world, and have ever since been preserved, by oral tradition, in the mountains of Crampcraggiri, an uninhabited island, not yet discovered. Of these few facts we could have the most authentic attestations of several clergymen, who remember to have heard them repeated by old men long before they, the said clergymen, were born. We do not trouble the reader with these attestations, as we are sure everybody will believe them as much as if they had seen them. . . ."
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Library Journal
Walpole , the fourth Earl of Orford, is appropriately the fourth author to be included in Mercury's ``Neglected Classics'' series, which began in 1991 with Lewis Carroll's The Complete Sylvie and Bruno (Classic Returns, LJ 10/1/92) and most recently includes Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom (Classic Returns, LJ 5/1/93). Remembered as the author of the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto , Walpole penned these seven tales for limited publication in 1786. The popularity of the fantasy genre today may spur interest in these strange stories. Large public and academic fiction collections will want to consider.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781843680598
  • Publisher: Pallas Athene (UK)
  • Publication date: 4/1/2011
  • Pages: 77
  • Sales rank: 1,261,288
  • Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was an art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and politician who is now largely rememberd for his revival of the Gothic style with his home Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto. Kenneth Gross is a professor of English at the University of Rochester and author of Shakespeare's Noise and Shylock is Shakespeare. He lives in Rochester, New York.

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Table of Contents

Editors' Note: A Horace Reading
Preface 3
I A New Arabian Night's Entertainment 13
II The King and His Three Daughters 25
III The Dice-Box. A Fairy Tale 35
IV The Peach in Brandy. A Milesian Tale 45
V Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale 55
VI A True Love Story 71
VII The Bird's Nest 81
Postscript 89
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