A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith ...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled & engrossed readers for two centuries Written by Mary Shelley it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood & quicken the beatings of the heart& The tale is a superb blend of science fiction mystery & thriller Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature experiments with alchemy & science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity it turns on its maker & the novel darkens into tragedy The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose the grotesque surreal imagery & the multi-layered themes in the novel Although first published in 1818 Shelley&s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination & has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies television & stage adaptations ...

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 & 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 & denied human companionship sets out to destroy Frankenstein & 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 & Frankenstein&s monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity Based on the third edition of 1831 this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story as well as her 1831 introduction & Percy Shelley&s preface to the first edition This revised edition

Includes:: as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 & 1831 together with &A Fragment& by Lord Byron & Dr John Polidori&s & The Vampyre A Tale& Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of the author & political philosopher William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley whom she married when his first wife died in 1816 She is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein but she wrote several other works including Valperga & The Last Man If you liked Frankenstein you might enjoy Bram Stoker&s Dracula also available in Penguin Classics

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley& Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness&A twisted upside-down creation myth Mary Shelley&s chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science & the horror within us all It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead
- but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder & destruction Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

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This timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man & monster In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long & tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship scientific hubris & horror ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A modern day take on the classic tale by Mary Shelley Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles & told entirely from the perspective of the Monster After he is artificially created then left for dead by a husb&-&-wife team of eccentric scientists Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression & violence from the world around him This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity ...

' Extraordinary A devastating but essential read' Kevin Powers bestselling author & National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds' Gripping darkly humorousprofound' Phil Klay bestselling author & National Book Award winner for Redeployment WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts & stitches them together to create a corpse His goal he claims is for the government to recognize the parts as people & give them a proper burial But when the corpse goes missing a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city & reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who though shot cannot be killed Hadi soon realises he has created a monster one that needs human flesh to survive
- first from the guilty & then from anyone who crosses its path An extraordinary achievement Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror & black humour the surreal reality of a city at war
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Sequel to both & The Ghost of Frankenstein& (1942) & & The Wolf Man& (1941) When grave robbers accidentally resurrect Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr)
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- he decides to seek a cure for his lycanthropic malady With Dr Frankenstein now dead Talbot is forced to turn to scientist Dr Frank Mannering (Patric Knowles) for help Mannering claims that not only can he banish the Wolf Man forever he also intends to resurrect Frankenstein&s dormant monster (Bela Lugosi) Followed by & House of Frankenstein& (1944)

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When policeman Terry Todd died he became a monster with a body patched together from three ruthless mobsters Now he fights for inner control against their evil souls in a conflict that could take this corrupt haunted city & dump it deeper into hell Unless his cop daughter stops him first This massive tome

Includes:: additional art & comics new story pages & detailed behind the scenes information as well as deviant art by Adam Hughes Mike Wieringo George Freeman Mike Oeming Scott Morse Angelo Torres Alex Nino & Bernie Wrightson

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Since it was first published in 1818 Mary Shelley&s seminal novel has generated countless print stage & screen adaptations but none has ever matched the power & philosophical resonance of the original Composed as part of a challenge with Byron & Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a bright young scientist & the catastrophic consequences that ensue Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein & the tortured creation he rejects is a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge the nature of beauty & the monstrosity inherent to man ...