Title:
Mary Shelley : the strange, true tale of Frankenstein's creator / Catherine Reef.
ISBN:
9781328740052
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Clarion Books, [2018]
Physical Description:
212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- Imagination -- Escape! -- Life's lessons -- Year without a summer -- Dreams -- "The journal book of misfortunes" -- Sorrow's abode -- "And I live!" -- Secrets -- Memory -- Happiness -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Picture credits -- Index.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.3 6 199587
Genre:
Audience:
1010L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1016502727
Availability:
Farmington~1
