Frankenstein

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley
Publication Date: 02/10/2020

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In an unparalleled era of scientific advances, Mary Shelley's classic takes on a new significance. Read the novel that has captured the imaginations of readers and authors worldwide. The author, herself, promised that it "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror - one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."

ISBN:
1230004252627
1230004252627
Category:
Classic fiction
Publication Date:
02-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
ScribeCount Publishing
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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