The Merciful Women
The second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, The Merciful Women is a brilliant retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manservant, a talent-less hack resentful of the ease of his master's life. Through a Faustian pact with an unseen intercessant, Polidori obtains the most compelling vampire story ever written. But The Vampyre ha…
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Weitere Autoren: Manguel, Alberto (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3826-2
- EAN: 9780802138262
- Produktnummer: 19611191
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 227 g
- Gewicht: 227
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