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Shelley Mary - Frankenstein - Hardcover
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Description: 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 design 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. 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 notes 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 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.
Title: Frankenstein
Author(s): Shelley Mary
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141393391
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/30/2014
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: 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 design 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. 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 notes 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 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.
Title: Frankenstein
Author(s): Shelley Mary
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141393391
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/30/2014
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
