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Byron (with his travelling physician John Polidori) and the Shelleys (with Claire Clairmont) rent neighboring houses on the shore of Lake Geneva at Cologny; they meet regularly at Byron's Villa Diodati, telling ghost stories for which Mary Shelley invented Frankenstein; Byron writes Canto III of Childe Harold; after touring the Alps and visiting the Chateau de Chillon with Percy Shelley, Byron leaves for Italy at the end of the year.
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