Showing results for "Frankenstein" in Historical Fiction

Victor Frankenstein ist nach seiner Rückkehr aus Griechenland am Boden zerstört und hadert mit seinem Schicksal. Er ist fest davon überzeugt, dass es ein großer Fehler war, die Suche nach der Panazee aufzugeben. Verbissen arbeitet er sich durch Berge von Literatur, um einen neuen Hinweis zu erhalten. Und plötzlich erwacht in Frankenstein erneut die Hoffnung, doch noch ein Mittel zu finden, das unsterblich macht.

In the dying days of 1850, the young detective Charles Maddox takes on a new case. His client? The only surviving son of the long-dead poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife Mary, author of Frankenstein. Charles soon finds himself being drawn into the bitter battle being waged over the poet's literary legacy. When a chance discovery raises doubts about the death of Shelley's first wife, Harriet, he starts to question whether she did kill herself—or whether what really happened was far more sinister…

For the first time, the untold story of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein is revealed in a dark and sweeping reimagining of Frankenstein by the acclaimed author of The Lost History of Dreams and Doomed Queens. Stunningly written and exquisitely atmospheric, Unnatural Creatures shocks new life into Mary Shelley's beloved gothic classic by revealing the feminine side of the tale.

The real love story of Frankenstein! Released from a promise to keep portions of her journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.