| Frankenstein Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1720764859 ISBN-13: 9781720764854 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Mary Shelley began it, she was only 18, though she was already Shelley's mistress and Byron's friend. In her preface she explains how she and Shelley spent part of a wet summer with Byron in Switzerland, amusing themselves by reading and writing ghost stories. Her contribution was Frankenstein, a story about a student of natural philosophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-houses. The story is not a study of the macabre, as such, but rather a study of how man uses his power, through science, to manipulate and pervert his own destiny, and this makes it a profoundly disturbing book. |