Frankenstein - Softcover

Shelley, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535097566 ISBN 13: 9781535097567

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This book is also available in large print (font size 16) and extra large print (font size 24).

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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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 doppelgänger 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 edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535097566
• ISBN 13: 9781535097567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146