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Hideous Love
The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
Author: Stephanie Hemphill
Narrator: Michelle Ford
Unabridged: 2 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: 10/01/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Biographical Stories, Children's Love & Romance
Synopsis
From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein.An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein.This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.