Frankenstein

Author: Shelley, Mary

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 30 January 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 352 pages
196 x 130 x 21 | 260g

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldThat rare story to pass from literature into myth The New York TimesMary Shelleys chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the worlds most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelleys revisions to her story, and also includes A Fragment by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidoris The Vampyre: A Tale. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE