Mary Shelley

The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator

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Catherine Reef: Mary Shelley (2018, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.

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978-1-328-52687-8
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"On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history"--

A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com

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  • Authors, english
  • Authors, juvenile literature