Mary Shelley (Broché)

There is no more dramatic scene in literary history than the stormy night by Lake Geneva when Byron, Claire Clairmont, Polidori and the Shelleys met to talk of horror and the unexplained. From that night emerged in Frankenstein a monster who has haunted imaginations for nearly two hundred years. His creator, the eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, is a woman who belongs as much to our own times as to the Romantic Age in which her life began.