Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A classic. When Victor Frankenstein creates his "Daemon," his life is then haunted by the creature, a killer, whom Frankenstein himself is guilty of unleashing. Or is he? With a new foreword by Sofie Couch, there may be more to Victor Frankenstein's monster than readers remember from their school days.
The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. With the author's own 1831 introduction.
A graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic tale of Frankenstein.
A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadNow a Penguin Classics...
Written when Mary Shelley was only nineteen-years old, this tale of a young scientist's desire to create life still resonates.
From the creature's creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic wastes, the story retains its narrative hold on the reader even as it spins off ideas in rich profusion.
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Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.
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Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.
This fictitious doctor, one of the first "mad scientists," was based on real-life researchers and their experiments. This compelling volume examines the work of Shelley and its possible inspirations in the world of science.