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Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein

Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein


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Haunting and deeply moving - a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story.

Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived.



About the Author :
Sharon Darrow, when asked why she chose to write about Mary Shelley, explains how much her life and Mary's intersect emotionally. "We share a concern about the effects of new technologies on our hearts, minds, and lives," she explains. "We are both preoccupied by the complexity of parent-child relationships, and we have both made choices that were difficult but personally necessary." THROUGH THE TEMPESTS DARK AND WILD is Sharon Darrow's first book with Candlewick Press. She lives in Chicago with her two cats and teaches in Vermont College's M.F.A. in Writing for Children program.
Angela Barrett is the award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES and ROCKING HORSE LAND AND OTHER CLASSIC TALES OF DOLLS AND TOYS, both retold by Naomi Lewis. Of what drew her to this story, she says, "First, Mary grew to maturity during a time period in which everything - the writers and artists, the social developments, the wars, the houses and fashions and all the trappings - has long interested me. Second, Mary's dark romantic imagination appealed to me. What dreams she must have had!"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780763608354
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Candlewick Press,U.S.
  • Height: 281 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 485 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0763608351
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein
  • Width: 239 mm


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