ISBN 9780316000789 | 0316000787 Textbooks - "The Monsters Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein" by Thomas Dorothy Hoobler Thomas Hoobler Hoobler Dorothy Hoobler Dorothy Hoobler

Authors: Thomas - Dorothy Hoobler - Thomas Hoobler - Hoobler - Dorothy; Hoobler - Dorothy & Hoobler
ISBN 10: 0316000787
ISBN 13: 9780316000789
Edition: First Edition
Release: May 22, 2006
Format: Hardcover (384 pages)
List Price: $24.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror,

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On a dark and stormy night in 1816, on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Lord Byron, famed English poet, challenged his friends to a contestto write a ghost story. The assembled group included the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his lover (and future wife) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Marys stepsister Claire Claremont; and Byrons physician, John William Polidori. The famous result of that night was Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, a work that appeared in print two years later and has retained its hold on the popular imagination for almost two centuries. Less well-known was Polidoris work, the first vampire novel. It too would inspire a legend (and most directly Bram Stokers Dracula), as well as many nightmares. And the evening begat a curse, too: Within a few years of Frankensteins publication, nearly all of those involved met untimely deaths. THE MONSTERS tells the riveting story of the real-life characters surrounding the creation of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein. It reveals not just the origins of two of the most famous monsters in popular culture, but the monstrous nature of the young people who gathered on the shore of Lake Geneva. Gripping and spooky, THE MONSTERS is unforgettable.

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