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2018 Reads > FOTMP: Different interpretation

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message 1: by Dominik (new) - rated it 3 stars

Jan 12, 2018 09:31AM

I just came across this essay that argues that the "Year without a summer", and the subsequent famine and refugee crisis, may also have inspired the novel. I haven't actually read the whole thing yet, but it seems interesting:

http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06...

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