Author: BARRELL,REX A.
Title: Horace Walpole (1717-1799) and France. studies in British History vol. 26
Description: Lewiston 1991, 648 pp., not ill., library note on first empty page, Extensive analysis of relations in the widest sense between the British wit and the neighbouring nation overseas; perhaps poignantly symbolizing the centuries old relationship of mutual suspicion and irrestistible attraction between two great nations. Moving detail how one young man serving in the French Résistance completed a translation of Walpole’s Castle of Otranto shortly before being captured and killed by the then common enemy of both countries, and of all of Europe (code B-313)

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