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Frankenstein (Pretty Book Edition)

Frankenstein (Pretty Book Edition)

by Mary Shelley
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/04/2022

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This frightening classic tale is now available in an exclusive collector's edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.

Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores the terror of what happens when humanity plays God. This time-honored classic is now available as an exclusive collector's edition.

Whether you're buying it as a gift or for yourself, this remarkable edition features:

  • A beautiful, high-end hardcover featuring Laci Fowler’s distinctive hand-painted art
  • Decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes throughout
  • Matching ribbon marker and gold page edges
  • Part of a 4-volume collection including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Great Gatsby, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Shattered by grief, the unstable Victor Frankenstein conducts a bizarre experiment, using electricity to shock inanimate matter and create an enormous man-like monster. Terrified by his own actions, Victor abandons his creation to the wilderness. Years later, the intelligent and hideous Creature finds his creator and demands his right to happiness. A tragedy of murderous rage and the fatal consequences of revenge, Mary Shelley's iconic novel has been terrifying readers since the nineteenth century.

Exploring the dark themes of birth and creation, loneliness, ambition, and the destructive power of revenge, this unique collector’s edition presents Shelley’s frightening tale of otherworldly adventures in a giftable new way.

ISBN:
9781401604110
9781401604110
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-04-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
236x159x23mm
Weight:
0.64kg
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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