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Frankenstein (Original 1818 Text)
(Paperback, 1999) Other Editions...

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Written in 1816 when she was only 19, in a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1551113082
ISBN-13: 9781551113081
Dec 1999
Publisher: Broadview Pr
Edition: 2
Language: English
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Written in 1816 when she was only 19, in a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, FRANKENSTEIN remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an undisputed classic.

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Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:15.2 oz

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"Out of that vampire-laden fug of gruesomeness known as the English Gothic Romance, only the forbidding acrid name of Frankenstein remains in general usage....Mary Shelley had courage, she was inspired. 'Frankenstein' has entertained, delighted and harrowed generations of readers to this day."


"...[T]he creation of the monster is essentially one of the horrors of birth, as young Mary, whose mother had died giving birth to her, and who was pregnant with a third foetus as she wrote 'Frankenstein', may have come to conceive it."
London Review of Books (09/19/1996)


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