This intriguing book is a diary written by John William Polidori in 1816, during the so-called 'Year without a Summer, ' which he spent in Switzerland with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The diary provides an unparalleled glimpse into the private lives of these famous writers, and is accompanied by illuminating annotations by William Michael Rossetti.

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