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Along with Polidori’s work, this edition also includes stories read and written by the travellers in the Genevan summer of 1816 and contemporary responses to The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.
Here are the text, textual variants, and copious notes and commentary both for that story and for Polidori's original contribution to the project. Also includes Byron's initial fragment. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819. An Essay upon the Source of Positive Pleasure. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. The Fall of the Angels: A Sacred Poem. London: John Warren, 1821.
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The Castle of Otranto , A Gothic Story ( with a new preface ) . London : William Bathoe , 1765 . ... The Castle of Otranto . Edited by Henry Morley . ... The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence . Forty - eight vols . Edited ...
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... Ernestus Berchtold ; or the Modern Oedipus ( 1819 ) , which , like Frankenstein , was partly set in Switzerland , deployed literary epigraphs ( in Polidori's case , from Dryden's Oedipus and Byron's The Giaour ) , and , of course ...
Notes 1 Kathryn King, Jane Barker, Exile: A Literary Career, – (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 70. 2 Jane Barker, A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies, in The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems, ...
Polidori introduced his tale by recounting the telling of ghost stories at the Villa Diodati in June 1816, the cold, wet 'Year Without a Summer', when European skies were darkened by volcanic ash. Thus, the Vampire entered the world ...