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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. ‘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 dull yellow eye of the
creature open…’ Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched
together from the limbs of the dead, taken from ‘the dissecting
room and the slaughter-house’. The result is a grotesque being
who, rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets
out on a journey to seek his revenge. 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. Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old
and published two years later, this chilling tale of a young
scientist’s desire to create life – and the consequences of
that creation – still resonate today.
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Frankenstein (Paperback)
Mary Shelley; Introduction by David Pinching
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One of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, Frankenstein is the most
famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused.
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human
from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his
creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized
but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So
begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his ‘monster’
pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of
their humanity are lost.
In 1831, Mary Shelley succumbed to conservative pressures and toned
down elements of the work; this edition presents the work as originally
intended.
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One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man
traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the
world. Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey—the
titular last man—and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from
continent to continent and erodes the foundations of civilization.
Published in 1826, after the death of Shelley’s husband, her
stepsister, and her two children, The Last Man is both an eerily
accurate story about humanity wrestling with disaster and a moving
fable about surviving personal grief.
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For years Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of
intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and
animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital
dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory,
perfecting the creature whom, he believes, will worship him as a
god. When he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly
brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life. Rather
than exult in his accomplishment, he runs from it, retreating to
the comfort of long-neglected friends and family. Frankenstein has,
indeed, created a monster . . . not by animating dead flesh but by
abandoning his creation. Now, the monster is out for revenge.
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Frankenstein (Paperback, Reissue)
Mary Shelley; Introduction by Siv Jansson; Notes by Siv Jansson; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled
and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley,
it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and
quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a superb blend of
science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven
by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with
alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead
remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate
entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy.
The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant
prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes
in the novel. Although first published in 1818, Shelley's
masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and
has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and
stage adaptations.
This is the original, 1818 text of Frankenstein. In 1831, the more
traditionally first "popular" edition in one volume appeared.This
version of the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was
under pressure to make the story more conservative, and included a
new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished
version of the genesis of the story. This edition tends to be the
one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text,
arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelley's original
publication.
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