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She made a monster : how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein

A 2018 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books

On the bicentennial of Frankenstein, join Mary Shelley on the night she created the most frightening monster the world has ever seen.

On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.

As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scary enough. But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. He was a monster.

This fascinating story gives readers insight into the tale behind one of the world's most celebrated novels and the creation of an indelible figure that is recognizable to readers of all ages.

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20096928 FULNon-FictionAvailable
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Series Title
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Call Number
928 FUL
Publisher
New York, USA : Alfred A. Knopf.,
Collation
40 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9780525579601
Classification
928
Content Type
text
Media Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Authors, English
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
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