Description: CONDITION: NEW 2003 Candlewick Press hardcover (pictorial boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Appropriately dark color illustrations by Angela Barrett. CONTENT: Haunting and deeply moving — a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story. Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author’s life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley’s life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett’s exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived. Shelley's mother was feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her father was the famous political theorist and novelist, William Godwin. Her husband was poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Grades 5 - 7/8. Shipping via USPS media mail within 2 days of order. Questions welcome & answered.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Product Group: Book
Book Title: Through the Tempests Dark & Wild
Book Series: Historical
Item Length: 10.9in.
Original Language: English
IsTextBook: No
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.4in.
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated, Pictorial boards, Color Illustrations, Decorated end pages, Select Bibliography, Exhibits list
Topic: Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Girls & Women, Founding Mother of Horror Stories, 0763608351
Item Width: 9.4in.
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults
Inscribed: No
Weight: 1 lbs
Edition: 1st edition; 1st printing
California Prop 65 Warning: NONE
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Picture Book
Literary Movement: Historical Fiction
Era: 1800s
Illustrator: Angela Barrett
Author: Sharon Darrow
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Biography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Number of Pages: Unpaginated
