- Published: 30 May 2019
- ISBN: 9781473569287
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Frankenstein
Or The Modern Prometheus
'It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .' Frankenstein
A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein
INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER BY JEANETTE WINTERSON
Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy.
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
- Published: 30 May 2019
- ISBN: 9781473569287
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
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Praise for Frankenstein
Frankenstein launched an entire genre of dystopian fiction, and a legacy of horror at the consequences of unbridled experimentation
Daily Telegraph
A haunting, melancholy work of gothic beauty
Independent
A masterpiece
Phillip Pullman
Shelley’s speechifying, lonely, Miltonic monster remains one of the greatest characters in all of literature… The book may also be the greatest meditation on birth I have ever read.
Siri Hustvedt, The Week
The most famous of all horror stories still packs a punch
Daily Mail