The Monsters - Mary Shelley & The Curse of Frankenstein

Informationen zum Autor Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler , a married couple, are the authors of The Monsters , a chronicle of the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . Their novel, In Darkness, Death , won a 2005 Edgar Award. They live in New York City. Klappentext 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. Vorwort "Absorbing . . . Will appeal to all who wish to learn more about the conception of Frankenstein and its enigmatic author." -Publishers Weekly Zusammenfassung The authors of the award-winning In Darkness , Death share the remarkable true story of Frankenstein's origins and the curse on its creators.

Product details

• Authors: Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Dorothy/ Hoobler Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler, Hoobler Dorothy, Hoobler Thomas
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2007
• EAN: 9780316066402
• ISBN: 978-0-316-06640-2
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism