Frankenstein
$19.07
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2022
Summary
For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scavenging body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god.
But when he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life and abandons his creation. The novel that translated the sto…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781435171442 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1435171446 |
| Author: | Mary Shelley |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 202mm x 134mm |
| Series: | Signature Classics |
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The first novel of the scientific revolution and, incidentally, the first novel of science fictionFrankenstein appeals to something very primal, but it’s also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birthHow many fictional characters have made the great leap from literature to mythology; how many creatures of sheer language have stepped from the rhythms of their author’s idiosyncratic voices into what might be called a collective cultural consciousness?The greatest novel of the Romantic movementMary Shelley more than made a name for herself and thrived without a formal education, becoming a trailblazing female writer in a genre still dominated by men today * INDEPENDENT *
About The Author
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the author of five novels and numerous works of short fiction. She is best known for Frankenstein. The daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley was steeped in the progressive ideas of the early 19th-century British Romantic era.
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