Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text - Softcover

Shelley, Mary

3.87

1,594,858 ratings by Goodreads

9781475167542: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475167547 ISBN 13: 9781475167542

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Frankenstein is the most successful Gothic novel in history and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The story is partially based on Giovanni Aldini's electrical experiments on dead and (sometimes) living animals. It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and helped spawn a complete genre of horror novels and films.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelg�nger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image ... but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.

Book Description:

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.