The Merciful Women
Andahazi, Federico / Manguel, Alberto![The Merciful Women](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/196/19611191/CHSBZCOP0319611191.jpg)
The second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, The Merciful Women is a brilliant retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves away in a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with the Gothic novel contest that would produce Frankenstein. Andahazi's reimagining focuses on the fifth competitor: John Polidori, Byron's manserva...