The first two volumes that Manchester wrote are magnificent. The second volume was published in 1988. It's sad that he screwed around on other projects the last years of his life and never finished the third volume. It was completed posthumously by Paul Reid and published a year ago. I bought a copy and read it, but sadly it misses the Manchester touch.David_B_K said:
Yes, it is a pity that he didn't finish it. Maybe each volume was so daunting, he kept putting it off until it was too late? Reminds me of that TR biography by Edmund Morris that I mentioned earlier. The 3rd volume came out a year or two ago, and the first volume came out in the late 70's. I'll probably eventually read that third Churchill volume. I expect it will simply be a lot of exhaustive research by Manchester that has been assembled and written by someone else.Dennis Nicholls said:
That's how the Creature was portrayed in the National Theatre production that played here as a Fathom event. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternated every other evening as the Creature or Dr. Frankenstein. I saw both versions, and they were really very faithful to the novel. Your last sentence sums it all up.RobertR said:
