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Bezig met laden... Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics: The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley (Volume 1)door Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Michael January (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A mostly tedious, stilted fictionalization of the Shelley-Godwin-Clairmont elopement. Reads like a travel diary, which I guess is what it is. The portrait of the headlong and self-indulgent Claire is probably pretty close to accurate. She's attempting to seduce Shelley all along the way. Eventually, they arrive at the Frankenstein castle, Claire presses her blatant attempt at seduction, and Mary laments inviting her along: "I've created a monster." ( )
An entertaining 'collaboration', exhaustively researched, skillfully adapted...long on memorable characters that will make readers see the seminal classic Frankenstein in a new light. This historical fiction novel is recommended to anyone interested in the lives of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley. The read was enjoyable and captures the feel of this time period. From joining conversations on religion and philosophy with her father and his friends, to her stilted relationship with her stepmother and grief over her own mother's death, we can see the events that shaped Mary Shelley's life and inspired her writing of Frankenstein...a subtle but illuminating look... I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is een hervertelling van
The real love story of Frankenstein. In 1814, two years before the notorious "Gothic Summer" in Geneva, 16 year old Mary Godwin eloped to Paris with the 22 year old poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inviting Mary's 15 year old step-sister Claire Claremont to go with them. They would walk across war ravaged France to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein. Three years later Mary would publish the diaries she kept of that journey of two teenage girls and the poet of "free love". In the published version of "A History of a Six Week's Tour" she would tell where they went and what they saw, but she never revealed the true secrets of that trip, from where a later inspiration arose. Here now, for the first time is revealed the secret personal life of the author of Frankenstein on that tour and beyond. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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