Frankenstein

Name: Frankenstein
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141439471
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By Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist driven by ambition to create life. Victor constructs a creature from body parts but is horrified by what he has done, leading to tragic consequences. The story explores themes of ambition, responsibility, and the pursuit of knowledge.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate exploring themes of ambition, creation, and the moral boundaries of scientific endeavour. This novel weaves a gripping tale of a scientist's quest to conquer nature, leading to unintended and tragic consequences. Fans of Gothic fiction and complex character studies will likely find this classic captivating.

Frankenstein

Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear.

A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle.

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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.

Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is hailed as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic literature. Conceived during a stay in the Swiss Alps with literary figures like Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, the story explores themes of dehumanization and the ethical implications of scientific ambition. With rich allusions and a thrilling narrative, the novel has stood the test of time, influencing the genre of science fiction and maintaining its initial impact as a bestseller since its 1818 publication.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141439471

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 January 2003

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Edited by Maurice Hindle

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 259g

Pages: 352

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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.