Frankenstein Paperback Penguin Classics English By (author) Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein
Or the Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Paperback (30 Jan 2003)


Publisher's Synopsis

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'

'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times

Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE


Book information

ISBN: 9780141439471
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 30 Jan 2003
DEWEY: 823.7
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Sales rank: 5149
Number of pages: 273
Weight: 260g
Height: 196mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 21mm