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Frankenstein

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley
Downloadable audio file
Publication Date: 11/01/2007

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FRANKENSTEIN, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil. Read by Kenneth Branagh, abridged.



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ISBN:
9781848941885
9781848941885
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Downloadable audio file
Publication Date:
11-01-2007
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
17x108x137mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva.

Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley conceived Frankenstein in, according to her, "a waking dream."

This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.,

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