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Nominee · Otherwise Award 2008

Pride and Prometheus

by John Kessel

2008 novelette by John Kessel

"Dark and gripping and tense and beautiful. "₇Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times Pride and Prejudice Threatened with destruction unless he fashions a wife for his Creature, Victor Frankenstein travels to England where he meets Mary and Kitty Bennet, the remaining unmarried sisters of the Bennet family from Pride and Prejudice Meanwhile, the awkward Mary hopes that Victor will save her from approaching spinsterhood while wondering what dark secret he is keeping from her. Pride and Prometheus fuses the gothic horror of Mary Shelley with the Regency romance of Jane Austen in an exciting novel that combines two age-old stories in a fresh and startling way.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Pages
371
ISBN
9781664460355
Subjects
Marriage, Scientists, Sisters, Young women, Monsters, Fiction, American literature

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