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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Shelley describes the monster as 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) and hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but i ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics
Through letters sent by Robert Walton to his wife, a wandering figure emerges named Victor Frankenstein. Frail and nearing his death, Victor recounts a fantastical story of how he assembled old body parts to create a human-like being, a creature so utterly monstrous and hideous that he regretted being i ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: The Originals
With an introduction from Haifaa al-Mansour, director of Mary Shelley. There is something in my soul, which I do not understand. Written by a teenage girl, Frankenstein is one of literature's greatest Gothic horror stories. Now with a striking new cover, discover one of the books considered to be a pion ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library | Reading Level: near fine
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveya ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
"Part of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator); Stephen King (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Annotated. Illustrated. Unabridged. Frankenstein, the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein, the prototypical "mad scientist" who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly attached to the creature itself, who has become o ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. "The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the d ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Frankenstein: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Written when Mary Shelley was only 20 years old, Frankenste ...Show more
Frankenstein (Chartwell Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
About Shelley's Frankenstein "I read [Frankenstein] in one sitting, and by the end of it, I was weeping. It was my Road to Damascus. It illuminated the reason I loved monsters, my kinship with them, and showed me how deep, how life-changing, a monster parable could be--how it could function as art and ...Show more
Frankenstein (Knickerbocker Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein pioneered the deeply explored battle between monster and man. Follow three narratives in this ageless tale that navigates fear, fixation, love and desire, while finding an anchor in humanity. The combination of fantastical elements and scientific exploration makes thi ...Show more