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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

To many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Mary Shelley began it, she was only 18, though she was already Shelley's mistress and Byron's friend. In her preface she explains how she and Shelley spent part of a wet summer with Byron in Switzerland, amusing themselves by reading and writing ghost stories. Her contribution was Frankenstein, a story about a student of natural philosophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-houses. The story is not a study of the macabre, as such, but rather a study of how man uses his power, through science, to manipulate and pervert his own destiny, and this makes it a profoundly disturbing book.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 5, 2018
ISBN13 9781720764854
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 130
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 7 mm   ·   181 g
Language English  

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