Frankenstein

Informationen zum Autor Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in 1797, the daughter of two leading radical writers. Her mother died just days after her birth and Mary was educated at home by her father, who encouraged her literary pursuits. She eloped with and subsequently married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but their life together was full of hardship. The couple were ruined by disapproving parents and Mary lost three of her four children. Although its subject matter was extremely dark, her first novel, Frankenstein , was an instant sensation. Subsequent works such as Mathilda and The Last Man were initially less successful but are now finally receiving the critical acclaim they deserve. Mary Shelley died in 1851, aged fifty-three. Klappentext Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh and then, horrified at what he has done, abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast because of his appearance, learns language and becomes civilized, but when rejected by society seeks revenge on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction in which Frankenstein and his 'monster' lose all vestiges of their humanity in monomaniacal hatred. With an Afterword by David Pinching. Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece in a beautiful pocket-sized edition. Zusammenfassung Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, presented in a beautiful, pocket-sized collector's edition, with a new afterword from David Pinching....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Shelley Mary
• Mitarbeit: David Pinching (Einführung), Pinching David (Einführung)
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781509827756
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-2775-6
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 105 mm x 160 mm x 16 mm
• Serien: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Monsters and Misfits
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Horror, Switzerland, Gothic, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Hallowe’en, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Classic horror & ghost stories, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Classic horror and ghost stories, Epistolary fiction, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages