Frankenstein

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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"."