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MediaDB / «Kisses, your Frankenstein. The Story of a Love" by Janet Winterson: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2020 / Summer 1816, Switzerland. Percy Bysshe Shelley with his young wife Mary and Lord Byron with his friend and personal physician John Polidori rent two houses on the shores of Lake Geneva. Heavy rains are not conducive to walks, and the young people spend most of their time at Byron's villa, having fun sitting by the fireplace and talking about the supernatural. Finally, Byron suggests that everyone write a phantasmagoric story. Mary, haunted by the thought of an immortal human soul locked in a mortal physical body, begins to write a novel about a new, non-biological form of life. “Beware of me: I am fearless and therefore omnipotent,” Frankenstein, generated by her fantasy, declares himself... Two centuries later, England, Manchester. The day is approaching when the monstrous monster created by the imagination of Mary Shelley will find its embodiment and the clash of artificial and human minds will plunge the world into chaos…