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Dominic explicitly asks Tom if he has read this book, describing it as 'fantastic' and about 7,000 pages long. It's discussed in the context of the Little Ice Age and the 17th century as a global phenomenon, examining climate's role in historical crises.

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Mentioned as 'the most famous product' of the summer of 1816 (the year without a summer) when Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley and others were trapped indoors by bad weather at Lake Geneva. Tom describes how the weather gets progressively worse in the novel.

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Referenced in connection to Dr. Polidori's vampire story written during the same 1816 summer at Lake Geneva, which 'establishes the prototype of the aristocratic vampire that will feed into Dracula.' The author (Bram Stoker) is not explicitly mentioned.