"The novel was conceived and mainly written by Mary Shelley," Robinson writes in his introduction, but he estimates that Percy wrote "at least" 4, 000 to 5, 000 words of the 72, 000 total.

“这部小说是由玛丽·雪莱构思的，主要也是她写的，”罗宾逊在引言中写道，但是他估计珀西在整个72000字中至少写了4000到5000个字。

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"I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers" (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley).

“我没有心情和陌生人一起谈笑”(玛丽·渥斯通克拉夫特·雪莱)。

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When the teenage Mary Godwin (soon to become Mary Shelley) first penned Frankenstein on a traumatic vacation in an Italian villa, she certainly had in mind that her character was playing God.

少女玛丽·葛德文（很快改姓成了玛丽·雪莱）在一个意大利别墅里度过了一次很受伤的假期，第一次动笔写《弗兰肯斯坦》，此时她脑子里的那个人物肯定在扮演上帝。

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In 1987 she appeared as Mary Shelley in Gothic, Ken Russell's lurid take on the visit by the Shelley's and Lord Byron to the Villa Diodati which resulted in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.

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On film Branagh cast him as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), as Stephen Fry's father in the comedy Peter's Friends (1992), Don Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the blind grandfather - playing opposite Robert De Niro's Creature - in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

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During one particularly eventful summer in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and John Polidori rented the Villa Diodati manor in Cologny, near Lake Geneva.

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