| Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (the 1818 Text): An Annotated & Illustrated Novel Contributor(s): Kellermeyer, M. Grant (Editor), Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Author) |
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ISBN: 1492878413 ISBN-13: 9781492878414 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Series: Oldstyle Tales' Horror Novels |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.70 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods, and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens: the blast tore along like a mighty avelanche, and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits, that burst all bounds of reason and reflection. I lighted the dry branch of a tree, and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched. A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sunk, and, with a loud scream, I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected. The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it, and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The mutated hybrid of Enlightenment optimism and Gothic cynicism - of humanism and environmentalism - Frankenstein offers a chilling postmortem of humanity's confident drive to master and operate the cosmos' generative and degenerative functions. The disastrous fable of man's bastardization of nature is as much a tragedy of the neglected offspring of human ingenuity and cosmic nature as it is an elegy of the hopes for mankind's progress in the gory wake of the French Revolution. |