Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Shelley, Mary

ISBN 10: 0143105035 / ISBN 13: 9780143105039

Edité par Penguin Classics, 2007

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Synopsis :

Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

À propos de l'auteur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe ...
Éditeur : Penguin Classics
Date d'édition : 2007
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Clowes, Daniel
Etat : Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket