She made a monster : how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
Fulton, Lynn2018
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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. 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 story gives readers insight into the tale behind one of the world's most celebrated novels and the creation of an indelible figure.
Main title:
She made a monster : how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein / Lynn Fulton ; illustrated by Felicita Sala.
Author:
Fulton, Lynn, authorSala, Felicita, illustrator
Imprint:
New York : Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2018.
Collation:
40 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780525579601 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.7823 SHE
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2515935