Mary - or, The Birth of Frankenstein (Hardcover)

Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart. 1816. Mary, eighteen years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley. She is tormented by his infidelities; haunted by the loss of her baby daughter. Then one evening with friends, as storms rage outside and laudanum stirs their imaginations, Lord Byron challenges everyone to write a ghost story, and something fierce and wild awakens in Mary. Memories surface of the long, strange summer she once spent with a family in Scotland, where she found herself falling in love with the enigmatic Isabella Baxter. She learned tales of mythical beasts, witches and spirits. And she encountered real monsters - both in the rocky wilds, and far, far closer to home... Illuminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of Frankenstein takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin.

General

Imprint:	Pushkin Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2023
Authors:	Anne Eekhout
Translators:	Laura Watkinson (Translator)
Designers:	Andrew Davis
Dimensions:	234 x 153mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-78227-897-9
Subtitles:	Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350)
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78227-897-4
Barcode:	9781782278979

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