
A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable & collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by creating life itself Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being which he shocks into life by electricity But his botched creature rejected by Frankenstein & denied human companionship sets out to destroy his maker & all that he holds dear This chilling gothic tale begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old would become the world&s most famous work of horror fiction & remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity This edition also
Includes:: &A Fragment& by Lord Byron & & The Vampyre A Tale& by John Polidori as well as an introduction & notes Mary Shelley (1797-1851) the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen Three years later during a wet summer on Lake Geneva Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece Frankenstein The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children & further tragedy followed in 1822 when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy Following his death Mary Shelley returned to England & continued to travel & write until her own death at the age of fifty-three