Frankenshtein. Podlinnaia istoriia znamenitogo pari - Shelli M., Shelli P.B.

In May 1816, five people spent their evenings on the shores of Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley with her husband the famous poet Percy Bisha Shelley and half-sister Claire Claremont, writer and doctor John Polidori and the legendary by that time John Byron did not know what to do. One day, Lord Byron suggested a bet that the one who writes the most terrifying, most "supernatural" story would win. The result of this contest was the birth of the demon Frankenstein, the most frightening in the history of world literature novel. No one expected that never before writing Mary will create a hero who after many years will drive the writer crazy. This edition publishes a significantly supplemented version, which was published in 1831. The story of the creation of the "most monstrous novel" is told in the travel essays of Mary and Percy Shelley, which they wrote during their forced imprisonment in a villa in Switzerland. The edition is illustrated with paintings and engravings from the 19th century.