{"product_id":"without-a-summer-an-anthology-paperback","title":"Without a Summer: An Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Gordon 1788- Byron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDC Raymond\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eContexts Collection \u003c\/em\u003eputs moments from literary history into amber. \u003cem\u003eWithout a Summer\u003c\/em\u003e is a time capsule of a moment in 1816, when Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein or: The Modern Prometheus\u003c\/em\u003e. Western Europe was in a volcanic winter caused by successive eruptions in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) that had lowered the global temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit--enough to cause the Year Without a Summer. Crops died, food riots rivaled the French Revolution, and an ice dam formed in Switzerland that created a lake that never before existed. It is this atmosphere that Lord Byron, his friend Percy Shelley, and his mistress, Mary Godwin, would abscond to the lake house in Geneva where \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e was born. Occupying themselves in the dark, damp, and cold, they competed to tell the best ghost story. Byron began a vampire novel called\u003cem\u003e The Burial\u003c\/em\u003e, but only completed a fragment. When his friend, John Polidori, fleshed it out--using Byron as a model for the vampire--he would invent the modern idea of the monster as a metaphor for a rakish ladykiller, setting the stage for Bram Stoker's \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e. But it was eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of two writers, would outdo them all. Upon returning, a series of tragic suicides would set the stage for Mary to become Mary Shelley as we know her today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, collected for the first time in one volume, are the stories and poems from that fateful trip, from that grim year. They include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMary Shelley's \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein or: The Modern Prometheus\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDr. John Polidori's \u003cem\u003eThe Vampyre\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePercy Shelley's \u003cem\u003eHymn to Intellectual Curiosity \u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp; \u003cem\u003eMont Blanc\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLord Byron's \u003cem\u003eDarkness\u003c\/em\u003e and the fragment of \u003cem\u003eThe Burial\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe letters published detailing the trip to Geneva\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751659143456,"sku":"9798869244772","price":16.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fe0005a9480897ab217f401f45766108.webp?v=1779977408","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/without-a-summer-an-anthology-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}