Mall Entrance
Posters
T-shirts
Comic Book Artist
Heroes
Aquaman
Batman
Captain America
Daredevil
Fantastic Four
Green Lantern
Green Arrow
Hulk
Iron Man
Justice League
Spiderman
Superman
Teen Titans
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Time-Rider
Transformers
X-men
Wolverine
Wonder Woman
The place for fans of DC & Marvel Comics heroes. Where the super heroes live.
Shop for the super hero collectibles your looking for. Buy your The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
birthday gifts here for the superhero fan in your home!
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein Books
In association with Amazon.com
List Price: $14.99
Prices subject to change.
Amazon.com's Price: $10.19
You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change.
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780316066402
ISBN: 0316066400
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: August 20, 2007
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Sales Rank: 612385
Studio: Back Bay Books
Related Items:
- Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
- Frankenstein: A Cultural History
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
- Mary Shelley
- see more
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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.
Average Rating: 
Rating:
- FascinatingThe Monsters is a fascinating read about some of the most fascinating literary figures of the 18th and 19th century. It even has sections of pictures to better understand what these people looked like (which is important, especially for Byron).
The book is far more than just the creation of the literary masterpiece Frankenstein. It spans the life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: from her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman), and her father, William ... Read More
Rating:
- Slaughtered AuthorsThe general story has been covered before, but here the Hooblers provide a readable update to the creation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and the surrounding events of her life. In 1816, the poet Lord Byron challenged some friends to come up with ghost stories, leading to not just Mary's classic but also to the first modern vampire novel (by associate John Polidori). Here the Hooblers compile the latest knowledge of everyone involved, leading to useful biographies of Mary Shelley, her poet husband Percy ... Read More
Rating:
- DelightfulHey, just finished "The Monsters" and enjoyed it immensely. I'm not a "literary" person but am interested in history. As a history it's a great and non-boring period read. I won't go into details like the lit buffs, but I wanted to put in a word for the general reader. If more lit "stuff" was written like this literature would be more meaningful. When you know the when and why and about how something was generated it gives it much more significance.
Rating:
- Reveals some rather painful truths!In some ways, this book is similar to Ken Russell's "Gothic," but in other ways, it's not; for one, Russell's film tends to Romanticise the two anti-heroes (Byron and Shelley) while the book states the sad facts quite clearly. It presents the true side of the "Romantics" and shows us that Byron and Shelley truly were very egotistical, narcissistic, and very selfish people with a varied modicum of talent. I really liked that this book did not sugar-coat the truth.
Come to think of it, it may ... Read More
Rating:
- Great Gothic HistoryThis book focuses on the life of Mary Shelley, which was tragic. It appears to be well-researched (I don't know enough to contradict any of their conclusions) and was very interesting, one of my nightly "just before I go to sleep" reads. There is plenty of detail about the lives of Mary's parents, her family, her very famous husband, Percy, and other historical individuals, most notably Lord Byron. But the authors keep the pace moving and do not get bogged down in dull details.
I particularly ... Read More
Browse for similar items by category:
- Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS
- Biographies & Memoirs - Subjects - Books - Authors
- Subjects - Books - General AAS
- Authors, A-Z - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre Fiction - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Reference
Books : The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
Buy superhero comic book collectibles at the Superhero Mall!