Frankenstein (Clothbound Classics) HB

A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley’s infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.This edition also includes ‘A Fragment’ by Lord Byron and ‘The Vampyre: A Tale’ by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notesMary 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.

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A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley’s infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.This edition also includes ‘A Fragment’ by Lord Byron and ‘The Vampyre: A Tale’ by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notesMary 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.»Франкенштейн» — этоледенящая душу готическая повесть, начатая, когда Мэри Шелли было всего девятнадцать лет. Она станет самым известным в мире произведением жанра ужасов и остается потрясающим исследованием пределов человеческого творчества.В это издание также включены «Фрагмент» лорда Байрона и «Вампир: повесть» Джона Полидори, а также введение и примечания.Одержимый идеей создания самой жизни, Виктор Франкенштейн грабит кладбища в поисках материала для создания нового существа, которое он оживляет с помощью электричества. Но его испорченное создание, отвергнутое Франкенштейном и лишенное человеческого общения, намеревается уничтожить своего создателя и все, что ему дорого.Книга на английском языке.

Вес19 унция
Габариты8.5 × 5.7 × 1.0 дюйм
ISBN

978-0-141-39339-1

EAN

9780141393391

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Серия

Переплет

Твердый переплет

Автор

Стандарт

10

Дата получения

26.11.2013

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Количество страниц

272

SKU

803238