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| Original Title: | The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein |
| ISBN: | 0316000787 (ISBN13: 9780316000789) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mary Shelley |
Dorothy Hoobler
Hardcover | Pages: 377 pages Rating: 4.03 | 679 Users | 98 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein |
| Author | : | Dorothy Hoobler |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 377 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published May 22nd 2006) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Writing. Books About Books |
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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. The famous result was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a work that 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 the evening 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.Rating About Books The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
Ratings: 4.03 From 679 Users | 98 ReviewsEvaluation About Books The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
The Shelleys and Lord Byron in a dark and stormy night, daring one another to write a scary story. I never knew who else was there, what stories were written other than Frankenstein, what their liaisons and fates brought. I love books that throw light in all the things I never knew I never knew.3.5 stars. If you read Romantic Outlaws, then there's no need to read this one. They're pretty much the same thing.
These people are so fascinating. It didnt need the dumb subtitle part about a curse that obviously is just a shallow attention grabber. Super fun to read otherwise.
The way a biography should be written.The way Hoobler tells the story of Shelley's life makes nothing about it seem bound by history or the way we think about Frankenstein today. It's just the story of a group of people defined by who they were at a certain age, the same as you or me. I think that's the way any biography should be written.
I loved reading this! It was well written and adventurous yet not romantic and distanced itself from Lord Byron and Percy choosing the side of Mary Shelly. I haven't been into non-fiction in a while but I found this book as inspiring as fiction. In fact, it would be difficult to write a story like this and still have it be believable.I learned all sorts of new things and got several new books to read out of it. One of the side characters was Pollidori who wrote a vampire novel which the authors
@El Im also obsessed with their lives if you have any book suggestions?
This is a facinating account, not just of Mary Shelley but the equally famous and talented people that were part of her life. From her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication on the Rights of Women, and often referred to as the first feminist) and her father, William Godwin, (author of Political Justice, athiest, anarchist, philosopher) to her poet husband, Percy Shelley, and his fellow poet, the dark, legendary, and multifaceted Lord George Byron, this book describes the web of
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