Frankenstein

Informationen zum Autor Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797. Her mother was the famous feminist philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft, and through her parents she moved in the intellectual and literary circles of her time. She was a prolific writer, well-remembered today through the legacy of her Gothic novel, Frankenstein, widely considered the first of its genre. Klappentext One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...' Victor Frankenstein's monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from 'the dissecting room and the slaughter-house'. The result is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young scientist's desire to create life - and the consequences of that creation - still resonates today. Zusammenfassung One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Shelley, Shelley Mary
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780008182199
• ISBN: 978-0-00-818219-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Collins Classics; Collins Classics B Format; Collins Classics; Collins Classics B Format
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Horror, History of Science, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Classic horror & ghost stories, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Monsters & Legendary Beings, Classic horror and ghost stories, Classic fiction: general and literary, gothic;horror;monster;Frankenstein Chronicles;Sean Bean