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The Vampyre

Autor John William Polidori Editat de Richard S. Hartmetz
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One dark night, in 1816, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley, and John Polidori sat reading ghost stories, trapped inside by a storm. That night, Shelley began the story that would evolve into "Frankenstein," while Polidori wrote a classic, but often overlooked tale about Baron Ruthven, a vampire, more than 70 years before Bram Stoker would write "Dracula." Join us, for the first vampire story ever to be translated into English, a chilling tale of horror which has influenced Stoker and generations of fiction writers.
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ISBN-13: 9781490945804
ISBN-10: 1490945806
Pagini: 60
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

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The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. This is a collection of Polidori's works, along with his lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his pamphlet on the death penalty, his poetry and diary.

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John William Polidori (1795-1821) was an English writer and physician, known for his involvement in the Romantic literary movement. Credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre, his novella 'The Vampyre' (1819) was the first modern vampire story. The text was written in the summer of 1816, as a result of a horror writing competition between himself and his literary friends. The same competition produced Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' (1818).