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一個故事是怎麼開始的？
有時它始於一個念頭、一個夢想－瑪麗雪萊就是這樣一個夢想家。
為了擺脫嚴格的父親和專橫的繼母，十六歲的瑪麗‧雪萊和她的未來丈夫，詩人雪萊私奔，前往瑞士與一群好朋友們作伴。在一個風雨交加的夜晚，五個年輕人圍在火堆旁舉辦一場鬼故事大賽！瑪麗對自己的表現不是很滿意，認為應該能編出更刺激的故事，但在當晚...她做了一個夢...，一年半後，西洋文學史上最著名也最駭人聽聞的恐怖科幻小說誕生了！
The inspiring story of the girl behind one of the greatest novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. For fans for picture book biographies such as I Dissent or She Persisted.
How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, another dreamer.
Two years later, they travel to Switzerland where they meet a famous poet, Lord Byron. On a stormy summer evening, with five young people gathered around a fire, Byron suggests a contest to see who can create the best ghost story. Mary has a waking dream about a monster come to life. A year and a half later, Mary Shelley's terrifying tale, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, is published -- a novel that goes on to become the most enduring monster story ever and one of the most popular legends of all time.
