2012, ISBN: 9780141198965

One of the best-known Gothic novels, Frankenstein is both a haunting, uncanny novel about the dangers and temptations of scientific progress and an enduring investigation into w… mais…

One of the best-known Gothic novels, Frankenstein is both a haunting, uncanny novel about the dangers and temptations of scientific progress and an enduring investigation into what it means to be truly human. So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. The result of a compact (when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old) between Mary, her husband Percy and Lord Byron one stormy night to write their own haunting stories, Frankenstein remains essential reading today. Influenced by the myth of Prometheus and Milton’s Paradise Lost, this chilling gothic tale would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and continues to be a devastatingly relevant exploration of the limits of human creativity. This edition also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notes Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three. 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. Books Mary Shelley|Paperback|Penguin Books Ltd|26/04/2012, Penguin Books Ltd<

2012, ISBN: 0141198966

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZäHLUNG; BüCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZäHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SE… mais…

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZäHLUNG; BüCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZäHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRET; ANIMAL FARM; I AM PILGRIM; ALCHEMIST; JANE EYRE; GREAT GATSBY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS; WAR AND PEACE; CHIMP PARADOX; GEORGETTE HEYER; DON QUIXOTE; MARTIAN; PARADISE LOST; BOY IN STRIPED PYJAMAS; MILK HONEY; GHOST STORIES; FAULT OUR STARS; ODYSSEY; EAST OF EDEN; CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY; CLOUD ATLAS; MAN HIGH CASTLE; ILIAD; REVENANT; TIME MACHINE; A ROOM WITH VIEW; COMMUNIST MANIFESTO; ALONE BERLIN; UNMUMSY MUM; MY COUSIN RACHEL; H IS FOR HAWK; DR JEKYLL MR HYDE; GOTHIC, Neuware - One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.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. 268 pp. Englisch, Books<

2012, ISBN: 0141198966

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRE… mais…

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRET; ANIMAL FARM; I AM PILGRIM; ALCHEMIST; JANE EYRE; GREAT GATSBY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS; WAR AND PEACE; CHIMP PARADOX; GEORGETTE HEYER; DON QUIXOTE; MARTIAN; PARADISE LOST; BOY IN STRIPED PYJAMAS; MILK HONEY; GHOST STORIES; FAULT OUR STARS; ODYSSEY; EAST OF EDEN; CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY; CLOUD ATLAS; MAN HIGH CASTLE; ILIAD; REVENANT; TIME MACHINE; A ROOM WITH VIEW; COMMUNIST MANIFESTO; ALONE BERLIN; UNMUMSY MUM; MY COUSIN RACHEL; H IS FOR HAWK; DR JEKYLL MR HYDE; GOTHIC, Neuware -One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.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. 268 pp. Englisch, Books<

2012, ISBN: 0141198966

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRE… mais…

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRET; ANIMAL FARM; I AM PILGRIM; ALCHEMIST; JANE EYRE; GREAT GATSBY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS; WAR AND PEACE; CHIMP PARADOX; GEORGETTE HEYER; DON QUIXOTE; MARTIAN; PARADISE LOST; BOY IN STRIPED PYJAMAS; MILK HONEY; GHOST STORIES; FAULT OUR STARS; ODYSSEY; EAST OF EDEN; CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY; CLOUD ATLAS; MAN HIGH CASTLE; ILIAD; REVENANT; TIME MACHINE; A ROOM WITH VIEW; COMMUNIST MANIFESTO; ALONE BERLIN; UNMUMSY MUM; MY COUSIN RACHEL; H IS FOR HAWK; DR JEKYLL MR HYDE; GOTHIC, Neuware -One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.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. 288 pp. Englisch, Books<

2012, ISBN: 0141198966

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRE… mais…

[EAN: 9780141198965], Neubuch, [PU: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Apr 2012], ENGLISCHE BELLETRISTIK / ROMAN, ERZÄHLUNG; BÜCHER HORROR ROMANE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, HEFTROMANE; FICTION CLASSICS; THE SECRET; ANIMAL FARM; I AM PILGRIM; ALCHEMIST; JANE EYRE; GREAT GATSBY; WUTHERING HEIGHTS; WAR AND PEACE; CHIMP PARADOX; GEORGETTE HEYER; DON QUIXOTE; MARTIAN; PARADISE LOST; BOY IN STRIPED PYJAMAS; MILK HONEY; GHOST STORIES; FAULT OUR STARS; ODYSSEY; EAST OF EDEN; CHARLIE CHOCOLATE FACTORY; CLOUD ATLAS; MAN HIGH CASTLE; ILIAD; REVENANT; TIME MACHINE; A ROOM WITH VIEW; COMMUNIST MANIFESTO; ALONE BERLIN; UNMUMSY MUM; MY COUSIN RACHEL; H IS FOR HAWK; DR JEKYLL MR HYDE; GOTHIC, Neuware -Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin, who disowned her when she eloped with the married man and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. They married after the suicide of his first wife. It was their friend Lord Byron, with whom the couple spent a summer in Switzerland, who suggested that she and Percy each write a horror story. Frankenstein was the result, inspired by a nightmare Shelley had when she was eighteen years old and published by the time she was twenty-one. 268 pp. Englisch, Books<