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The Geneva Collection Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the Vampyre, by John Polidori

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The Geneva Collection Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the Vampyre, by John Polidori - Polidori, John, and Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Professor, and Byron, George Gordon
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In May of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin traveled with her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her stepsister Claire Clairmont, to Lake Geneva, Switzerland. There, they visited the exiled poet Lord Byron, as well as his doctor and companion Dr. John Polidori, at an estate called the Villa Diodati. The companions spent many hours in conversation, including evenings spent around the campfire telling ghost stories. During one of these story-telling sessions Lord Byron suggested a contest wherein each member of ...

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The Geneva Collection Frankenstein by Mary Shelley the Vampyre, by John Polidori 2011, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston SC

ISBN-13: 9781467936606

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