The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein

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  • Author : Dorothy Hoobler
  • Author : Thomas Hoobler
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780316066402
  • ISBN : 0316066400
  • Label : Back Bay Books
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Back Bay Books
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 400
  • Package Dimensions : 1.10 inches (Height) x 8.10 inches (Length) x 0.80 pounds (Weight) x 5.50 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2007-08-20
  • Publisher : Back Bay Books
  • SKU : ACAMP_book_usedgood_0316066400
  • Studio : Back Bay Books

One murky night in 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, famed English poet, challenged his friends to a contest--to write a ghost story. The assembled groupincluded the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his lover (and future wife) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary's stepsister Claire Claremont; and Byron's physician, John William Polidori. The famous result was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a workthat has retained its hold on the popular imagination for almost two centuries. Less well-known was the curious Polidori's contribution: the first vampire novel. And theevening begat a curse, too: Within a few years of Frankenstein's publication, nearly all of those involved met untimely deaths. Drawing upon letters, rarely tapped archives, and their own magisterial rereading of Frankenstein itself, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a rip-roaring tale of obsession and creation.

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