| Frankenstein: Introduction by Wendy Lesser Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary (Author), Lesser, Wendy (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679409998 ISBN-13: 9780679409991 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1992 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 | Science Fiction - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91053195 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.24" W x 8.33" (0.88 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher Description:
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction. |