The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“Invention … does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos”—Mary Shelley In the two hundred years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein’s creation during stormy days and nights at Byron’s Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this compelling and innovative book, Daisy Hay stitches together the objects and manuscripts of the novel’s turbulent genesis in order to bring its story back to life. Frankenstein was inspired by the extraordinary pe...