Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

Name: Frankenstein (Painted Editions)
Brand: HarperCollins New Zealand
SKU: 9781400346561
Price: 28.0 NZD
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By Mary Shelley

Series: Harper Muse Classics: Painted Editions

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Frankenstein, the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition. It features striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading... Read More

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Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

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Frankenstein, the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements.

Description

Frankenstein, the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition. It features striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists.

Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores the terror of what happens when humanity plays God. This time-honoured classic is now available as an exclusive collector's edition.

Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this remarkable edition features:

A beautiful softcover featuring Laci Fowler's distinctive hand-painted art.
Decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes throughout.
Part of a 4-volume collection including The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, and Little Women.

Shattered by grief, the unstable Victor Frankenstein conducts a bizarre experiment, using electricity to shock inanimate matter and create an enormous man-like monster. Terrified by his own actions, Victor abandons his creation to the wilderness. Years later, the intelligent and hideous Creature finds his creator and demands his right to happiness. A tragedy of murderous rage and the fatal consequences of revenge, Mary Shelley's iconic novel has been terrifying readers since the nineteenth century. Exploring the dark themes of birth and creation, loneliness, ambition, and the destructive power of revenge, this unique collector's edition presents Shelley’s frightening tale of otherworldly adventures in a giftable and affordable new way.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781400346561

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 April 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Harper Muse

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 507g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley conceived Frankenstein in, according to her, "a waking dream." This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.

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