Fantasmagoriana: or, Tales of the Dead from the Villa Diodati - Tapa blanda
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In the gloomy summer of 1816, a motley collection of poets, exiles, and adulterers gathered at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva... Fantasmagoriana: a collection of Gothic tales by Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori, all originating in a night of ghost storytelling. Contains the complete FRANKENSTEIN and Polidori’s influential THE VAMPYRE, plus Gothic works by Byron, Shelley, and Mathew ‘Monk’ Lewis.
Biografía del autor
MATTHEW ‘MONK’ LEWIS rose to notoriety in 1794 when he wrote Ambrosio, or The Monk¸ a Gothic novel whose original edition contained passages so shocking to contemporary society that an injunction was taken out to restrain its sale. In 1812, he inherited his father’s estates in Jamaica: on his way to the West Indies he visited Shelly, Byron and the rest at the Villa Diodati. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY was one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. Expelled from Oxford for his publication of a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism, he went on to elope with Harriet Westbrook who he married, and later abandoned when he fell in love with Mary, daughter of political radicals William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and eloped with her, spending some time wandering the continent. After Harriet’s suicide, he married Mary. Back in England, he associated with many leading poets and writers of the day before settling in Italy. He drowned while sailing from Livorno to Lerici. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON was the other great Romantic poet present at the Villa Diodati. He was notorious for his rakish excess, his many affairs with lovers of both sexes, and possibly his own half-sister. He entered into a self-imposed exile from his homeland in 1816, the year of his meeting with Shelley on the shores of Lake Geneva. His poetry ranged from short works such as We’ll Go No More A Roving to narrative epics including Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and Don Juan. A radical in his politics, he lost his life while fighting on the Greek side in their War of Independence. JOHN POLIDORI was an Englishman of Italian descent employed by Byron as a physician. As well as The Vampyre, he also wrote a long epic poem entitled The Fall of the Angels before his tragic death, possibly suicide due to his many debts, in 1821. MARY SHELLEY was the daughter of political radicals William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. She began an affair with poet and radical Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was seventeen, marrying him following the death of his estranged wife Harriet in 1816, after the conception of the Frankenstein story. After her husband’s death by drowning in 1822, she returned to England and worked as a professional author. After several years of illness, she died in 1851. EDITOR: GAVIN CHAPPELL has written and edited short stories, poetry, novels and non-fiction. A qualified teacher of further education, he has taught English and Creative Writing for eight years.
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- EditorialCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Año de publicación2011
- ISBN 10 1467969885
- ISBN 13 9781467969888
- EncuadernaciónTapa blanda
- IdiomaInglés
- Número de páginas414
- EditorChappell Gavin
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