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Fiction's most famous monster was the creation of a nineteen-year-old woman, Mary Shelley. Although she was the daughter of famous parents and the wife of a gifted poet, she made her mark on history with the story of a scientist who breathes life into a creature stitched together from corpses. She was also the author of the remarkable futuristic allegory, THE LAST MAN. In Muriel Spark's brilliant investigation of Mary Shelley's life and work, biographer and subject are perfectly matched. As Hilary Spurling has written, 'Both are dry, clear and forthright to the point of bluntness, cool and sharp as a mint julep, with something of the same afterkick'.
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At 16, Mary Wollstonecraft shocked England when she ran away with her married lover, the tempestuous, brilliant poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. then, at 20, she secured her place in history by writing "Frankenstein", now acknowledged as one of the great literary classics of all time. This biography recounts the life and loves of this legendary woman, from her youth as the daughter of a philosopher and a pioneering feminist, through her passionate, turbulent marriage, and her career as a writer and editor.
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Muriel Spark is an internationally respected biographer, critic and novelist whose works include THE BALLAD OF PECKHAM RYE, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE and A FAR CRY FROM KENSINGTON.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0141391340
- ISBN 13 9780141391342
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages272
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