The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
by Dorothy Hoobler
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages377 pages
ISBN
9780316000789
Published
2006
Description
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 group included the poet percy bysshe shelley; his lover (a...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 group included 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.