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The Old English Baron
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- Nombre de pages190
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-5-297-51613-7
- EAN9785297516137
- Date de parution19/05/2026
- Protection num.Digital Watermarking
- Taille2 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurCaelwick Press
Résumé
The Old English Baron opens with Sir Phillip Harclay returning to England after years of foreign service to find his friend Arthur Lord Lovel dead, and the family castle sold to Baron Fitz-Owen. Among the baron's children, Harclay takes notice of the adopted son Edmund, a peasant from the nearby village. The knight feels an immediate connection with the child and offers to adopt him as his own. From there, the tale continues with a mix of adventure, mystery, romance, and the supernatural, telling of the tragic fate of the Lovel family.
The Old English Baron is an influential early Gothic novel. It was first published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue , and a year later was republished under its current title and Reeve's name. Written as an offspring of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , the novel follows a similar plot. It retains some of the ghostly tropes that define the genre, but avoids the more fantastical elements of its spiritual predecessor, to achieve Reeve's stated goal of "uniting the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient romance and modern novel." Clara Reeve (died 1807) was a celebrated writer of the Romantic era.
Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Old English Baron exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.
The Old English Baron is an influential early Gothic novel. It was first published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue , and a year later was republished under its current title and Reeve's name. Written as an offspring of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , the novel follows a similar plot. It retains some of the ghostly tropes that define the genre, but avoids the more fantastical elements of its spiritual predecessor, to achieve Reeve's stated goal of "uniting the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient romance and modern novel." Clara Reeve (died 1807) was a celebrated writer of the Romantic era.
Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Old English Baron exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.
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