A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art byGhost Worldcreator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and 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, and horror.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art byGhost Worldcreator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and 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, and horror.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Maurice Hindle edited Frankenstein and Dracula for Penguin Classics and teaches at the Open University.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of
nineteenth-century Gothicism. While stay-ing in the Swiss Alps in
1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary,
then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor
Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity.
Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and
morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the
corrupting influence of science. Packed with allusions and literary
references, it is also one of the best thrillers ever written.
Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus was an instant bestseller
on publication in 1818. The prototype of the science fiction novel,
it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations but retains its
original power.
This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by Wendy
Steiner, the chair of the English department at the University of
Pennsylvania and author of The Scandal of Pleasure.
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797 in London.
She eloped to France with Shelley, whom she married in 1816. After
Frankenstein, she wrote several novels, including Valperga and
Falkner, and edited editions of the poetry of Shelley, who had died
in 1822. Mary Shelley died in London in 1851.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of
nineteenth-century Gothicism. While stay-ing in the Swiss Alps in
1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary,
then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor
Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity.
Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and
morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the
corrupting influence of science. Packed with allusions and literary
references, it is also one of the best thrillers ever written.
Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus was an instant bestseller
on publication in 1818. The prototype of the science fiction novel,
it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations but retains its
original power.
This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by Wendy
Steiner, the chair of the English department at the University of
Pennsylvania and author of The Scandal of Pleasure.
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797 in London.
She eloped to France with Shelley, whom she married in 1816. After
Frankenstein, she wrote several novels, including Valperga and
Falkner, and edited editions of the poetry of Shelley, who had died
in 1822. Mary Shelley died in London in 1851.
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