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FRANKENSTEIN ENGLISH EDITION - MARY SHELLEY KAR...

The world's most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of
human creativity. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American
Read  Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at
its greatest literary pitch. 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 to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation  as it
destroys everything Victor loves  is a powerful story of love  friendship  scientific hubris 
and horror. Based on the third edition of 1831  this Penguin Classics edition  with an
introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle  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. It also 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."  For
more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin Classics represents a global
bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust
the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished
scholars and contemporary authors  as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning
translators.

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