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Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus

Author: 
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; M. K. Joseph
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  • Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture—the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more. 

  
'by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow yee of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs'
  

To many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Maary Shelley began it, she was only 18, though she was already Shelley's mistress and Byron's friend. In her preface she eplains 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 philsophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constrcted from bones he has olleted in charnelhouses. 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.

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ISBN : 9780199537167

Author: 
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; M. K. Joseph
Pages
272 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 195 mm
Pub date
Aug 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus