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Product Identifiers
PublisherCreateSpace
ISBN-101548634115
ISBN-139781548634117
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038375200
Product Key Features
Book TitleFrankenstein
Number of Pages148 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics
Publication Year2017
GenreFiction
AuthorMary Shelley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal823.7
SynopsisFew creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal. The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror -- one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
