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The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926.In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest.
The Castle is a 1997 Australian comedy film directed by Rob Sitch, and written by Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy of Working Dog Productions, all veteran writers and performers on ABC's The Late Show and The D-Generation.
The Castle: A Triumph (often shortened to The Castle) is a stage play by Howard Barker. [1] It was performed 18 October – 22 November 1985 by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Pit in The Barbican Centre as part of a season of three Barker plays (the other two being revival productions of Downchild and Crimes in Hot Countries).
We Have Always Lived in the Castle was named by Time magazine as one of the "Ten Best Novels" of 1962. [9] In March 2002, Book magazine named Mary Katherine Blackwood the seventy-first "best character in fiction since 1900". [10] On Goodreads, the novel ranks #4 on the list of "Most Popular Books Published in 1962", as voted for by the website ...
The Castle of Otranto is widely regarded as the first Gothic novel, and, with its knights, villains, wronged maidens, haunted corridors and things that go bump in the night, is the spiritual godfather of Frankenstein and Dracula, the creaking floorboards of Edgar Allan Poe and the shifting stairs and walking portraits of Harry Potter's Hogwarts.
Goblins in the Castle (1992) ISBN 0-671-72711-7; Goblins on the Prowl; Monster of the Year; The Monsters of Morley Manor; The World's Worst Fairy Godmother; Thor's Wedding Day; Always October; Amber Brown is Tickled Pink (with Elizabeth Levy, September 13, 2012) [2] Amber Brown Is on the Move (with Elizabeth Levy, September 12, 2013) [3]
The castle is fictional, but the historical context is real. Macaulay places its construction in North West Wales between 1283 and 1288, when Edward I of England was in fact building a string of castles to help his conquest of that land, a long-term strategy which involved the English establishing an irremovable presence in Wales over generations until they are gradually accepted by the native ...
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, first published in London by Thomas Hookham in 1789. In her introduction to the 1995 Oxford World Classic's edition of the text, Alison Milbank stated that the novel's plot "unites action of a specifically Scottish medieval nature with the characterization and morality of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility."