The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; Or the Modern Oedipus

by John William Polidori

In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron's personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the time in 'a wet, ungenial summer, ' the travellers took to writing ghost stories. Byron wrote his Faustian drama Manfred (1817); Mary Shelley wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818). Polidori appropriated an unfished story by Byron...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802074650
• ISBN13: 9780802074652
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"