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Frankenstein

Name: Frankenstein
Author: Fred Botting,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ISBN: 9780312124618

by Fred Botting, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Overview

A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok

Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

About the Author, Fred Botting,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) became one of the first bestselling female authors soon after the publication in 1818 of Frankenstein, her best-known work.
Elizabeth Kostova is the author of the bestselling novel The Historian.
Maurice Hindle teaches literature at the Open University in London. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Dracula and Caleb Williams.
Daniel Clowes is the author of the graphic novel Ghost World, which was made into a feature film in 2001.

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James Hynes

. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. —The New York Times Book Review

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Shelley's classic hints in part at the possible dangers inherent in the pursuit of pure science; it also portrays the injustice of a society which persecutes outcasts such as the "Monster." Disturbing and profoundly moving, Frankenstein has become part of our own mythology.