Tales of Villa Diodati

The Origins of Iconic Science Fiction and Gothic Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvMary Shelley,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Polidori,Lord Byron

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In 1816, also known as “The Year Without a Summer,” a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friends confined indoors by unseasonably dismal weather. “We will each write a story,” proposed Lord Byron. The challenge was the genesis of this blood-chilling anthology blending the macabre, supernatural, and romance.Selections include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the first true science fiction novel, and John Polidori’s The Vampyre, considered one of the earliest examples of the romantic vampire genre. The story was inspired by Lord Byron’s A Fragment, which is also included, as is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Fragment of a Ghost Story. These spine-tingling tales have enthralled generations of readers for centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-27
Mått190 x 10 x 110 mm
Vikt270 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagDover Publications Inc.
ISBN9780486851365

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Daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley edited the works of her husband, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and is best known as the author of Frankenstein.After his childhood in the Sussex countryside, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) attended Eton College and Oxford University. By the second decade of the 19th century, he was living mostly abroad and writing poems that didn't bring him fame during his lifetime but grew steadily in both critical stature and popular acclaim after his death.Poems including Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and many others – such as his 1820 masterpiece Prometheus Unbound – cemented his position as one of the greatest poets of the English Romantic period. Shelley drowned at the age of 29 in a sailing accident during a storm in the Italian Gulf of Spezia.John Polidori was a writer and physician whose contribution to the Villa Diodati contest would later inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula.George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer devoted to the romantic movement in England.