The novel begins with explorer Robert Walton looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. After weeks as sea, the crew of Walton's ship finds an emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, floating on an ice flow near death. In Walton's series of letters to his sister in England, he retells Victor's tragic story. Growing up in Geneva, Switzerland, Victor is a precocious child, quick to learn all new subjects. He is raised with Elizabeth, an orphan adopted by his family. Victor delights in the sciences and vows to someday study science. Victor prepares to leave for...
The novel begins with explorer Robert Walton looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. After weeks as sea, the ...
Few monsters of horror have captured readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished creature of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's awful creation and the mayhem it caused has fascinated millions of readers and inspired nearly all writers of suspense and horror. This Fantasy Illustrated version is complete with over 20 Black and White Sketches from Shelley's own mystical and haunting Era. Perfect edition for school or summer reading. Makes a great gift as well. PRESS ADD TO CART BUTTON NOW
Few monsters of horror have captured readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished creature of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The sto...
Is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Shelley's name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates ...
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Victor Frankenstein learns how to impart life into organic matter, but his dream of creating something beautiful does not go as expected...
This 1831 edition of the book, studied at GCSE, AS and A2 level, is a fabulous read and is sure, as Mary Shelley hoped, to 'awaken thrilling horror' and 'curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart'.
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This book is also available in large print (font size 16) and extra large print (bold, font size 24).