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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus : The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley (1965, Mass Market)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100451523369

ISBN-139780451523365

eBay Product ID (ePID)12403

Product Key Features

Book TitleFrankenstein or the Modern Prometheus : the 1818 Text

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1965

TopicHorror, General, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorMary Shelley

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight3.9 Oz

Item Length13.2 in

Item Width3.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN90-061029

Dewey Edition21

Afterword byBloom, Harold

Dewey Decimal823/.7

SynopsisThe epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein . 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 himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ...and horror., "I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, "Frankenstein". Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind. "From the Paperback edition."