Description
| Product ID: | 9780008182199 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Collins Classics |
| Title: | Frankenstein |
| Authors: | Author: Mary Shelley |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic horror and ghost stories, History of science, Mythical, legendary and supernatural beings, monsters and creatures, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic horror & ghost stories, History of science, Monsters & legendary beings |
| Description: | In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…’Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from ‘the dissecting room and the slaughter-house’. The result is a grotesque being who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young scientist’s desire to create life – and the consequences of that creation – still resonates today. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-04-07 |
