Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Series: Penguin Classics Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0141439475
ISBN-13: 9780141439471
Product ID: EPID2356452
Description: 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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the stor...
Synopsis 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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.
Details
Publication Date:
2003-04-01
Series:
Penguin Classics Series
Edition Description:
Reissue
Size
Length:
273 pages
Height:
7.8 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
9.3 oz
Industry Reviews "Out of that vampire-laden fug of gruesomeness known as the English Gothic Romance, only the forbidding acrid name of Frankenstein remains in general usage....Mary Shelley had courage, she was inspired. 'Frankenstein' has entertained, delighted and harrowed generations of readers to this day."
"...[T]he creation of the monster is essentially one of the horrors of birth, as young Mary, whose mother had died giving birth to her, and who was pregnant with a third foetus as she wrote 'Frankenstein', may have come to conceive it." London Review of Books (09/19/1996)