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A PENGUIN CLASSICS HARDCOVER FRANKENSTEIN ENG...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read  A stunning
new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction  designed by the
award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are
bound in high-quality colourful  tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by
creating life itself  Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new
being  which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature  rejected by
Frankenstein and denied human companionship  sets out to destroy his maker and all that he
holds dear. This chilling gothic tale  begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old 
would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction  and remains a devastating
exploration of the limits of human creativity. This edition also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord
Byron and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by John Polidori  as well as an introduction and notes Mary
Shelley (1797-1851)  the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin
eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later  during a wet
summer on Lake Geneva  Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece  Frankenstein. The years of her
marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children  and further tragedy
followed in 1822  when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death  Mary Shelley
returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of
fifty-three.

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