Книга «Frankenstein». Издательство: Fischer. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 224. Автор: Shelley Mary. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Германия.

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.

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley’s chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead — but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.Франкенштейн (Мэри Шелли)Извращенный, перевернутый миф о творении, пугающая готическая история Мэри Шелли обнажает темную сторону науки и ужас внутри каждого из нас. В нем рассказывается история Виктора Франкенштейна, который грабит кладбища, чтобы создать новое существо из тел мертвых, но чье неудачное создание не вызывает ничего, кроме убийств и разрушений. Написанный после кошмара, когда его автору было всего восемнадцать, «Франкенштейн» породил современный научно-фантастический роман.

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and activates it with an electrical charge. The result is horrifying — even to his maker — and is never named.The hideous creature escapes the laboratory and searches in vain for friendship. Despairing, he returns to Frankenstein and demands a partner as his right to happiness. But when Victor destroys her before she is completed, the monster vows vengeance on everything he holds dear.Widely regarded as the first proper science-fiction novel, Frankenstein provided the inspiration for a whole genre of horror stories and, later, films.

Книга «Frankenstein». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 202. Автор: Shelley Mary. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.