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.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mary Shelley, Shelley Mary
• Edition: Flame Tree Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781787550926
• ISBN: 978-1-78755-092-6
• Pages: 224
• Thèmes: Gothic Fiction; Gothic Fiction; Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Livres pour enfants et adolescents; FICTION / Classics, Fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories