Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of the author and political philosopher William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she married when his first wife died in 1816. She is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, but she wrote several other works, including Valperga and The Last Man.
Description
'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' (The New York Times)
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.
| Recommended in Program(s): | Challenge II |
| Cycle(s): | n/a |
Details
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Publisher: |
Penguin English Library |
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Publication date: |
26 Apr 2012 |
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Number of pages: |
288 |
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Weight: |
204 g |
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Dimensions: |
197 x 130 x 13 (mm) |
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Format: |
Paperback |
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ISBN: |
9780141198965 |