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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

Part of the Flame Tree Collector's Editions series

Subject
Careers, Occupations, Internships
Format
Hardcover
Pages
416
Publisher
Flame Tree Collections
Size
11.4 cm × 17.3 cm
ISBN
9781839644771
Gorgeous Collector's Edition of the masterpiece from the gothic pen of Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with creation. However, on achieving a miracle, Frankenstein finds himself horrified by the creature of his own making.

This new version includes two companion pieces, 'Transformation', and 'The Mortal Immortal', as well as Aeschylus' original Prometheus Bound.

Flame Tree Collector's Editions present the foundations of speculative fiction, authors without whom the imaginative literature of the twentieth century would not exist, bringing the best and most influential writers into a striking and collectable library. Each book features a new introduction, a short biography and a glossary of Gothic and Victorian terms.

About the creators

Mary ShelleyAuthor

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was born in London, to her father the writer William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary's early life was unconventional and by the age of 16 she eloped with the then-married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Amongst their friends were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, the latter of whom offered the challenge to Mary to write a ghost story which later became Frankenstein.

Sarah FaulknerIntroduction by

Sarah Faulkner teaches English at the University of Washington. Her main areas of research are Romanticism, 18/19C Literature, Women’s Writing, Scottish Studies, and Book History. As well as her research and teaching interests, she is involved with public humanities and outreach, and in 2018 helped co-ordinate the Frankenreads event at UW, a reading of Frankenstein to celebrate the novel’s 200th anniversary.

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