Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

Stripping himself of the Star of David that marked him as a Jew, he went underground with his family, living by his wits and ...

During a summer in Geneva with Romantic poet Lord ... adapted to the screen more times than one can count: the 1818 novel ...