Frankenstein
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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 Frank...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Frankenstein af Mary Shelley
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. One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley''s infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed 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.This edition also includes ''A Fragment'' by Lord Byron and ''The Vampyre: A Tale'' by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notesMary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
Udgave
0
ISBN
9780141393391
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
352
Udgivelsesdato
03-10-2013
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
2104839
EAN nr.
9780141393391
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
31
Bredde (mm)
200
Længde (mm)
139
Vægt (g)
470
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