The Poet and the Vampyre
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The Poet and the Vampyre

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The Poet and the Vampyre

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In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was the greatest poet of his generation and the most famous man in Britain, but his personal life was about to erupt. Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety, and debts, he sought refuge in Europe, taking his young doctor with him. As an inexperienced medic with literary aspirations of his own, Doctor John Polidori could not believe his luck.That summer another literary star also arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Shelley came his lover, Mary, and her step-sister, Claire Clairmont. For the next three months, this party of young bohemians shared their lives, charged with sexual and artistic tensions. It was a period of extraordinary creativity: Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein, the gothic masterpiece of Romantic fiction; Byron completed Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, his epic poem; and Polidori would begin The Vampyre, the first great vampire novel.It was also a time of remarkable drama and emotional turmoil. For Byron and the Shelleys, their stay by the lake would serve to immortalize them in the annals of literary history. But for Claire and Polidori, the Swiss sojourn would scar them forever.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781605987040
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Prelude
  6. Chapter 1 St Georgeā€™s Day
  7. Chapter 2 Directions for John
  8. Chapter 3 The Footing of an Equal
  9. Chapter 4 That Odd-headed Girl
  10. Chapter 5 Here is a Man
  11. Chapter 6 An Empireā€™s Dust
  12. Chapter 7 Young Tahitians
  13. Chapter 8 A Star in the Halo of the Moon
  14. Chapter 9 Fog of the Jura
  15. Chapter 10 To Die of Joy
  16. Chapter 11 The Hero of Milan
  17. Chapter 12 Household Gods
  18. Chapter 13 The Vampyre
  19. Chapter 14 Sea Sodom
  20. Chapter 15 Torn Clouds Before the Hurricane
  21. Epilogue
  22. Illustrations
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index
  27. Also by Andrew McConnell Stott
  28. Copyright