Book description
Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest
ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But
when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he has made a
monster. And, abandoned by its maker and shunned by everyone who sees
it, the Doctor's creation sets out to destroy him and all that he holds dear.
Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN remains one of the greatest horror stories
ever written, a book that chillingly captures the unforeseen terror of
playing God. And the heart-stopping fear of being pursued by a powerful,
relentless killer. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was a British novelist,
short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer,
best known for her Gothic novel FRANKENSTEIN: OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
(1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the
Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the
political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher
and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
