EAN: 9781509827756

FRANKENSTEIN ENGLISH EDITION - MARY WOLLSTONECR...

Designed to appeal to the book lover  the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth
printed on high quality paper  and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges  Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.    Frankenstein is the most famous novel by
Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its
publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein  a brilliant but wayward scientist  builds a human
from dead flesh and then  horrified at what he has done  abandons his creation. The creature 
an outcast because of his appearance  learns language and becomes civilized  but when rejected
by society seeks revenge on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction in which Frankenstein
and his 'monster' lose all vestiges of their humanity in monomaniacal hatred.  With an
Afterword by David Pinching.

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