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FRANKENSTEIN ENGLISH EDITION - MARY SHELLEY KAR...

Now that I had finished  the beauty of the dream vanished  and breathless horror and disgust
filled my heart ... Obsessed with creating life itself  Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards
fot he material to fashion a new being  which he shocks into life with electricity. But his
botched creature  rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship  sets out to destroy
his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when
she was only eighteen  living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva.
It 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 the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story  as well as her 1831 introduction and
Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as
appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with A Fragment by Lord
Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.

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