Frankenstein (Audio book) - Audio CD

Brought to you by Penguin. A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being, shocking his creation to life with electricity. But this botched creature, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy Frankenstein and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of Gothic horror, and Frankenstein's monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Shelley
• Assisted by: Peter Noble (Reader / Narrator), Colin Salmon (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780241423189
• ISBN: 978-0-241-42318-9
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 140 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Audio Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Suspense > Horror; FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Gothic, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic horror and ghost stories