"On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history"-- A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com Provided by publisher.

Prologue -- Imagination -- Escape! -- Life's lessons -- Year without a summer -- Dreams -- "The journal book of misfortunes" -- Sorrow's abode -- "And I live!" -- Secrets -- Memory -- Happiness -- Epilogue.