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The Monsters

Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein

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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 ... more

About Author

Dorothy and Tom Hoobler have written more than 80 books for adults, young adults, and children, and have received numerous awards from library, educational, and cultural organizations. Their ten-book series for Oxford University Press, The American Family Albums, has gone through several printings and has been used as premiums for PBS television fund-raising drives throughout the United States.

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9780316066402_154X233
Back Bay Books
Category:
HISTORY
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
8/20/2007
Price:
$14.99/$17.25
ISBN:
9780316066402
Pages:
400
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

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