Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream - Paperback

by Alessandro Di Virgilio (Author), Manuela Santoni (Illustrator)

Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream is an expressively illustrated fictional account of the life of writer Mary Shelley, as told by her famous invention, Frankenstein's monster. With cameos by a variety of other famous writers and historical figures, this graphic novel is perfect for fans of literary and feminist history.

The extraordinary life of the woman who created one of fiction's most enduring characters: Frankenstein's monster. Born at the turn of the 19th century to the famous philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft (forerunner of the feminist movement) and William Godwin (novelist and radical politician), Mary Shelley lived a life in constant flight from social conformity. Her struggle birthed a pop culture phenomenon. Now in print for the first time in English, Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream chronicles Shelley's relationships with other important artists and writers, including her eventual husband Percy Shelley, and the "butterfly effect" of love, hardship, tragedy, and inspiration that led to the creation of the infamous monster.

Author Biography

Alessandro Di Virgilio is from Naples, and lives in a town in the Sabina region. He has published with BeccoGiallo, NPE, Tunué, Round Robin, Ed. Inkiostro, Star Comics, Noise Press. He's also worked for Editoriale Aurea and SBE.

Manuela Santoni is an illustrator from the province of Rome. She was born in 1988, and after attending Artistic High School, she majored in Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and graduated in 2012 in Art History. At the same time, she attended the "Scuola Romana" of Comics and she was selected for an annual Masters in Illustration Arts in 2013 at Macerata. Since 2017 she has taught at the school "Pencil Art" in Rome. She has illustrated narrative books for children: Girl R-Evolution (De Agostini, 2016) and Storie Proprio Buffe (Il Castoro, 2016), and is the author of Jane Austen (2017) and Le Sorelle Bronte (2018) for BeccoGiallo. She lives and works in Fonte Nuova, in the province of Rome.