Reading an Essay

1927. Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. The book begins: It would be flattering to my intelligence were I able to make this Essay a learned and analytical description of any reader's proper mental processes. I have seen such books, books that point out so clearheadedly what must be read at eight, eighteen, twenty-eight, with careful lists of the fifty best volumes, and cold and impassive descriptions of the world's most famous writers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Walpole, Hugh is the author of 'Reading an Essay' with ISBN 9781417913657 and ISBN 1417913657.