A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel that describes Victor Frankenstein's meeting with the radical atheist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford and recruiting "resurrection men" to deliver fresh bodies to secret laboratory, where the monster is created.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822, fiction, shelley, mary wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, byron, george gordon byron, baron, 1788-1824, polidori, john william, 1795-1821, frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction, scientists, monsters, england, social life and customs, 19th century, fiction