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On June 17th, 1816, while holed up at a Lake Geneva villa rented by Lord Byron, a game of competitive ghost-story telling would sow the seeds for the creation of Frankenstein's monster by the 18-year-old Mary Shelley. Though this event has been written about extensively, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler return to the seminal moment in Gothic, Romantic, and science-fiction literature, and explore the events in a lively fashion that will appeal to people unfamiliar with the marvelous origins of the novel. The Hooblers also discuss the supposed Curse of Frankenstein, the grim fact that everyone present on that June day would lose children and loved ones in tragic ways. Finally, the book examines the connections between Lord Byron and the vampire story: the first literary vampire, Lord Ruthven, was originally created by John Polidori as a scathing critique of Byron's notoriously rakish, libertine, and (metaphorically) blood-sucking lifestyle. THE MONSTER will appeal to anyone interested in 19th-century literature, the gloriously Gothic lives of Byron and the Shelleys, or vivid descriptions of a rich historical moment.
| Size | | Length: | 377 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
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