Frankenstein

Name: Frankenstein
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141393391
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By Mary Shelley

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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Summary

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley weaves a captivating tale of ambition and responsibility. It follows Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a sentient creature in a daring experiment. As the creature seeks acceptance, the story explores themes of love, isolation, and the consequences of playing God.
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This novel may appeal to you if you're interested in exploring themes of ambition, creation, and the consequences of playing god. You'll find the complex relationship between a creator and his creation intriguing, especially if you enjoy delving into questions of identity, humanity, and morality. The gothic atmosphere and suspenseful narrative will captivate those who appreciate a blend of horror and philosophical depth.

Frankenstein

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.

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A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction.

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is celebrated as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, blending a tale of ambition and the dire consequences of unchecked scientific experimentation. Sparked during a stay in the Swiss Alps, the novel tells the haunting story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the creature he animates. Written amidst personal tragedy, it incorporates rich literary references and themes of dehumanisation, becoming a foundational work of science fiction that has inspired numerous adaptations while retaining its compelling impact.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141393391

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 October 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 472g

Pages: 352

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Literary Fiction Mary Shelley Series: Penguin 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.