Selected Letters of Horace Walpole: Edited and Introduced by Stephen Clarke

A new and newly annotated selection of letters—the only selected edition available in hardcover—from the English eighteenth-century historian, novelist, and politician whose correspondence is one of the most admired in English literature.

Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture. He wrote to his numerous correspo...