Frankenstein

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A beautifully crafted clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's iconic horror novel, featuring a design by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith. This collectible Penguin edition boasts vibrant, textured cloth covers with elegant foil detailing.

A timeless gothic masterpiece exploring the consequences of playing God and the quest to create life.

Driven by an obsession to create life, Victor Frankenstein raids graveyards to gather parts for a new creature, which he brings to life using electricity. However, his creation, abandoned and shunned by its creator and deprived of human connection, turns vengeful, seeking to ruin Frankenstein and everything he loves. Written when Mary Shelley was only nineteen, this haunting story has become the most renowned work of horror fiction worldwide, offering a powerful reflection on the boundaries of human innovation.

This edition also features 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by John Polidori, along with an introduction and explanatory notes to enrich the reading experience.

Mary Shelley (1797–1851), daughter of the groundbreaking thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with poet Percy Shelley at sixteen. Three years later, during a rainy summer at Lake Geneva, she penned her legendary novel, Frankenstein. Her married life was marked by the loss of three of her four children, and further sorrow struck in 1822 when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. After his death, Mary returned to England, continuing to travel and write until she passed away at fifty-three.

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