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Frankenstein

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 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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Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
2015
Format
Hardcover
Pages
240
ISBN10
0241256615
ISBN13
9780241256619
Series
First published
1818
Original title
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Rating
4.05 out of 5
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 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.