The Vampyre and Other Writings Polidori John WilliamPaperback
The Vampyre and Other Writings Polidori John WilliamPaperback A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most…
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The Vampyre and Other Writings Polidori John WilliamPaperback
A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters the vampyre. This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, including a medical thesis on nightmares, an essay on the source of pleasures, poetry and personal diaries, and the novel Modern Oedipus. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition.
These works combine to help illuminate and deepen the reader's understanding of Romanticism and the