Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

A masterpiece—Philip Pullman

More relevant today than ever—Benjamin Zephaniah

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.

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ISBN 13	9780241256619
ISBN 10	0241256615
Title	Frankenstein
Author	Mary Shelley
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2015-12-03
Number of pages	240
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