Frankenstein - Or, the Modern Prometheus

A powerful masterpiece from the gothic pen of Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with the idea of creating life. However on achieving his patchwork miracle of human flesh, Frankenstein finds himself horrified by his repulsive creation. With a new biography and a detailed new Glossary.

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was born in London, to her father the writer William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary's early life was unconventional and by the age of 16 she eloped with the then-married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Amongst their friends were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, the latter of whom offered the challenge to Mary to write a ghost story which later became Frankenstein.

Summary

A powerful masterpiece from the gothic pen of Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with the idea of creating life. However on achieving his patchwork miracle of human flesh, Frankenstein finds himself horrified by his repulsive creation. With a new biography and a detailed new Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Shelley, Shelley Mary
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781787550926
• ISBN: 978-1-78755-092-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Gothic Fiction; Gothic Fiction; Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories