A deluxe gift edition of the gothic masterpiece about a creator who abandons his creature. This beautiful deluxe gift edition presents Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece in a hardback with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon. Explorer Robert Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein from the Arctic ice and hears the story behind his ruin. As a young scientist, Victor discovers how to animate lifeless matter and creates a living being. Horrified by his own achievement, he abandons the creature, setting in motion a tragic cycle of rejection, revenge, murder and pursuit across Europe and into the frozen north. Frankenstein is a foundational work of Gothic fiction and science fiction about creation, ambition, responsibility, loneliness and the monstrous consequences of refusing compassion. This Vintage Collector’s Classics edition is a powerful gift for readers and collectors.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-20
Mått137 x 206 x 23 mm
Vikt307 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVintage Collector's Classics
Antal sidor224
FörlagVintage Publishing
ISBN9781529954302

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Mary Shelley was born in London on 30 August 1797. Her mother, the celebrated feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, died a few days after her birth.Her father, William Godwin, a well-known anarchist and atheist writer, tutored Mary. In 1814, when she was sixteen, she fell in love with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and they eloped to France. In 1816 the couple travelled to Lake Geneva to spend the summer with the poet Byron. Mary was inspired to write Frankenstein after Byron arranged a ghost story competition during their stay. In the autumn of 1816 Shelley's pregnant wife drowned herself in the Serpentine in Hyde Park and Shelley immediately married Mary. The couple had four children together but only one son survived infancy. They lived in Italy until Percy's death in a boating accident in 1822. Mary continued to write until her death in London on 1 February 1851. She is buried in Bournemouth.