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Frankenstein
Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary (Author)
ISBN: 0486282112     ISBN-13: 9780486282114
Publisher: Dover Publications
OUR PRICE:   $5.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1994
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Annotation: At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the elements of horror and suspense.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Fantasy - Dark Fantasy
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 94036624
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.30 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 533
Reading Level: 12.4   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 17.0
 
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Few 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.