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Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Puffin Classics)
Mary Shelley
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Description for Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Puffin Classics)
Paperback. Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, follows Dr Frankenstein with murder and horrors to the very ends of the earth. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 218.
One of the best known horror stories ever.
Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, follows Dr Frankenstein with murder and horrors to the very ends of the earth.
Product Details
Publisher
Puffin Classics
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140367126
SKU
V9780140367126
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-15
About Mary Shelley
Mary 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus (Puffin Classics)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century Gothicism. While stay-ing in the Swiss Alps in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary, then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity. Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a ... Read more