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Oct 29, 2010
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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In the edition I read an Afterword by literary critic Harold Bloom states the book "affords a unique introduction to the archetypal world of the Romantics" and it's amazing how many of the movement's hallmarks I found. The book famously was the result of a rainy day challenge that included the poets Lord Byron and the author's husband, Shelley, it mentions Coleridge and quotes Wordsworth and includes encomiums to nature.
Framed as a letter by a ship's captain to his sister about his guest, this ...more
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Oct 11, 2009
Angela Randall
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We own this as part of a gothic omnibus: Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
We also own this as one half of a book with Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dracula/Frankenstein
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We also own this as one half of a book with Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dracula/Frankenstein
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