ASIN: B0090IEYOG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 53
It was the most famous gathering in English literary history. In May, 1816, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley rented neighbouring houses on the shores of Lake Geneva. One rainy day, Byron came up with an idea - one that was to change the course of literature. “We will each write a ghost story,” he declared. His companions – the dazzling poet Shelley and his 18-year old mistress Mary, the handsome, neurotic doctor Polidori, and Byron himself – on the run from England after an incestuous affair – all took up the challenge. Over the course of that wet summer by the shores of Lake Geneva, the novel Frankenstein – conceived by Mary Shelley after a nightmare – was born; while Byron began one of the first Vampire stories ever written. But what happened to the original tales the brilliant companions told one other during the gloomy Swiss evenings? In the Ghosts of Geneva Kate Hoyland reconstructs ...
