Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York TimesMary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE

ISBN:	9780141439471
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	30 Jan 2003
DEWEY:	823.7
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Sales rank:	4952
Number of pages:	273
Weight:	262g
Height:	196mm
Width:	130mm
Spine width:	21mm

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