Frankenstein(3rd Edition) or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by MaryWollstonecraftShelley, Nick Groom Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-884082-4, ISBN: 0-19-884082-9
"By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discove ..."
"Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong b ..."
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Frankenstein (Masterpiece Library Edition) by MaryWollstonecraftShelley Hardcover, 219 Pages, Published 2023 by Peter Pauper Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4413-4213-3, ISBN: 1-4413-4213-3
Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus (Courage Classics) by MaryWollstonecraftShelley, Robert Kiely Hardcover, 170 Pages, Published 1990 by Courage Books; Imprint Of Running Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89471-882-3, ISBN: 0-89471-882-7
"The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, in which only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. This text represents what Frankenstein's first readers encountered and is the text favored by scholars. A special critical section, Composition and Revision, includes essays by M. K. Joseph and Anne Mellor that address the ..."
"Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind. But soon, he learns to hate people and becomes evil. Frankenstein has learnt how to create life. But will this life destroy him?"
"Mary Shelley was only eighteen when Lord Byron challenged a group of friends to write the best horror story. She fleshed out her original and this was accepted for publication when she was just twenty. Shelley wrote several novels after Frankenstein but none of them has stood the test of time, although in her lifetime she was taken seriously as a writer, especially of biographies. She died in 1851, thirty years after the tragic early de ..."
Frankenstein (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by MaryWollstonecraftShelley Hardcover, Published 2022 by Wordsworth Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-84022-834-2, ISBN: 1-84022-834-2
"Frankenstein is a deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation, which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818."
"In these literary classics, you make the choices. Readers explore alternative paths, new character developments, shocking new endings, and surprising plot twists, told in the same voice as Mary Shelley's original."
"The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of ..."