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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. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141439471
eBay Product ID (ePID)92112905
Product Key Features
Book TitleFrankenstein
AuthorMary Shelley
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2003
GenreHorror
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMary Shelley
EditorMaurice Hindle
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom