This series of booklets aims at giving information about the English novel and its development, its genres and the main authors.
There are description of the period in which novels were born, when and why they developed with extensions which deal with the authors that characterize the period and the genre and the description of their main works.
The Origin of the Gothic Novel focus on the beginning of a genre that is still among the most modern, the one that embraces all the novels we appreciate more nowadays: the detective story, science fiction, horror, thriller, fantasy, vampires and mummies stories,