One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’
Mary Shelley was just eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley beside Lake Geneva, when she conceived the story that would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction. Victor Frankenstein — brilliant, obsessive, consumed by the ambition to create life itself — plunders graveyards to fashion a new being, only for his botched creature to turn against him with devastating consequences. More than a tale of terror, Frankenstein endures as a profound exploration of the limits of human creativity and the price of unchecked ambition. ‘That rare story to pass from literature into myth’ — The New York Times. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume incorporates all of Mary Shelley’s revisions, and also includes ‘A Fragment’ by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre: A Tale’. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE.
ISBN 13: 9780141439471
Author: Mary Shelley
