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A beautiful new hardback edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the book's first publication INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
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- Title
- Frankenstein
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mary Shelley
- Publisher
- Penguin random house
- Released
- 2018
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1784874418
- ISBN13
- 9781784874414
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Love, Classics, Science, Horror, Germany, France, Murders, Death, Supernatural Beings, Gifts for men, England, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Vampires, Mysterious, Mysteries, Revenge, Scotland, Gothic, Switzerland, Romanticism, Gothic Horror, Monsters, Dread, Fear, Experiments (Science), Classicism, Arctic, Geneva, Victorian Fantasy
- First published
- 1818
- Original title
- Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- A beautiful new hardback edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the book's first publication INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**