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Written on: 21/05/2006 by Harriet Klausner (18637 reviews written)
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
Dorothy & Frank Hoobler
Little, Brown, May 2006, $24.95
ISBN: 0316000787
This fabulous biography of Mary Shelly contains a fascinating but not proven seemingly invalid premise that grips readers like this reviewer who saw it coming and still kept reading. The Hooblers argue eloquently that those who were at the Swiss villa where Frankenstein was written all were cursed with death in a short period afterward; anecdotal evidence seems to…
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