Listed among the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’, this Penguin English Library edition brings Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece to a new generation of readers. ‘Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness’ Victor Frankenstein ransacks graveyards to build a new being from the bodies of the dead — but his botched creation brings only murder and destruction in its wake. Written after a nightmare when Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein gave rise to the modern science fiction novel, laying bare the dark side of science and the horror lurking within us all. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
ISBN 13: 9780141198965
Author: Mary Shelley
