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Frankenstein

By Mary Shelley
Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a living being out of assembled body parts. His creation, often referred to as "the monster," struggles with its identity and the repercussions of its existence. The tale explores themes of ambition, responsibility, and the quest for knowledge.
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"Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treacherous journey to end the monster's existence."--

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Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart.

Frankenstein takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg, to the beautiful Swiss Alps, to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle, in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations.

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Frankenstein is often hailed as a masterpiece, as noted by Philip Pullman. Benjamin Zephaniah highlights its enduring relevance in today's world.

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ISBN: 9780241425121

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 September 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin Classics

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 207.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 320

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Featured In Stock Kid's Books Mary Shelley Most Popular Books of All Time Penguin Books Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics

About the Author

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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