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Mary: or, the Birth of Frankenstein

內容簡介

內容簡介 在她的心中有一個怪物，想放聲吼叫、撕碎所有事物。1816年，瑪莉雪萊18歲，和她的丈夫詩人雪萊受到拜倫的邀請一同來到日內瓦湖聚會，一天晚上，外面狂風暴雨，拜倫建議輪流說一個恐怖的鬼故事，這點燃了瑪莉心中暗藏已久的火苗，也讓她動筆寫下史上第一本科幻小說─《科學怪人》。瑪莉的記憶回到四年前的那個奇異的夏天，因為健康緣故，她與她家人們來到蘇格蘭休養，在那裡，她認識了17歲的美麗、熱情又活潑的伊莎貝拉‧貝克斯特，她們沉浸於美麗的蘇格蘭鄉間風光，討論關於女巫、鬼怪和各種鄉野奇譚，瑪莉不自覺被她吸引，而這段令她著迷的關係卻即將急轉直下...There is a beast inside her, a monster. It wants to scream, it wants to tear things apart.1816. Mary, eighteen years old, is staying in a villa on Lake Geneva with her lover Percy Shelley. She is tormented by his infidelities; haunted by the loss of her baby daughter.Then one evening with friends, as storms rage outside and laudanum stirs their imaginations, Lord Byron challenges everyone to write a ghost story, and something fierce and wild awakens in Mary.Memories surface of the long, strange summer she once spent with a family in Scotland, where she found herself falling in love with the enigmatic Isabella Baxter. She learned tales of mythical beasts, witches and spirits. And she encountered real monsters – both in the rocky wilds, and far, far closer to home…Illuminating the past like a flash of lightning, this brilliant reimagining of the birth of Frankenstein takes us into a feverish world of waking dreams-where grief mingles with desire, and the veil between beauty and horror grows thin.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Anne EekhoutAnne Eekhout is an award-winning Dutch novelist. Mary; or the Birth of Frankenstein was inspired by the teenage years of Mary Shelley, and is both an imaginative exploration of the great writer's psyche and an unsettling meditation on the monsters that inhabit our minds. It is the first of Anne's novels to be published in English and is also currently being translated into 13 languages.

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最佳賣點 : Kirkus Review推薦！重新想像《科學怪人》之母‧瑪莉雪萊寫下駭人故事的起源