Monsters
In this bi-centenary year of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, (1792-1822), let’s kick off this subject with that most famous of monsters; that created by Victor Frankenstein in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the poet’s wife.
Penned in the summer of 1816, while the couple were guests of George Gordon, Lord Byron, this science fiction masterpiece tells the story of how an ambitious scientist creates a living creature from the limbs and parts of other dead people. The results are tragic... Читать дальше...