Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (P.S.)Harper Perennial; First Trade Paperback Edititon edition (July 3, 2006) | ISBN: 0060556595 | 223 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
Starred Review. On a stormy night at Lord Byron's Swiss villa, Mary Shelley challenged her host, her husband and herself to write a ghost story. Mary's, of course, became Frankenstein. Byron supposedly soon gave up his—but, Crowley asks, what if he didn't? The result is this brilliant gothic novel of manners enclosed in two frames. In one, Byron's manuscript comes into the hands of Ada, his daughter by his estranged wife.