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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley
Maurice Hindle
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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times
Mary 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

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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 26, 2006

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780141914398
  • Release date: January 26, 2006

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780141914398
  • File size: 437 KB
  • Release date: January 26, 2006

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Horror Romance

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:12.4
Lexile® Measure:1170
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:8-9

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times
Mary 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

Expand title description text
Classic Literature Fiction Horror Romance