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Frankenstein or 'The Modern Prometheus' (The Penny Dreadful Collection)

Mary Shelley, Martin Stiff
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley visited Lord Byron at his villa by Lake Geneva. The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 had cast a long volcanic winter, and the weather was not conducive to outdoor pursuits. Instead the companions amused themselves by reading ghost stories, and Byron challenged them to write their own. A terrifying nightmare inspired the eighteen-year-old Mary to write the tale that she would later expand into her classic novel, Frankenstein: or “The Modern Prometheus", a deeply disturbing story of one man's attempt to re
eBook, English, 2014
Titan Books, 2014
Penny Dreadful
1 online resource (286 pages).
9781783295494, 178329549X
956646189
Print version:
Frankenstein or 'The Modern Prometheus' (The Penny Dreadful Collection).
Shelley, Mary.
Cover; Contents; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Epigraph; Letter I: To Mrs. Saville, England; Letter II: To Mrs. Saville, England; Letter III: To Mrs. Saville, England; Letter IV: To Mrs. Saville, England; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; Walton, in Continuation; About the Author; Also Available from Titan Books
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