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Not too much to say except I echo the other readers who complained about this book being about everything except Jesse Pomeroy. Montillo seems to want to show her research into everything but him and we focus on the history of Boston, the Boston Great Fire, Herman freaking Melville, and honestly I t...
Oh, what a sad life Mary Shelley led! The book follows Mary’s life right from the moment of her birth and touches on every source of inspiration that led to the writing of Frankenstein. The story would leave Mary for a while at some points and follow other people who were vital to the writing of...
In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city--a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872--in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City.In the ...
I'm guessing most of you have read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Have you ever wondered about the history of the author and how she came to write such a story before she'd even turned 20 years old? Well, if you didn't um...well you probably won't be interested in what I've ...
I picked this book up as a research tool for something I'm writing dealing with a theme similar to Frankenstein. I was very excited to begin reading it and finished it quickly. The book was very interesting. It did have a lot of good information. I would definitely recommend it. My only complaint is...
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