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Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Károly Markó, Jacob Philipp Hackert and Hermann Ottomar Herzog. Victor Frankenstein assembles a living creature in a candlelit attic, sees what he has made, and runs. Everything that follows — the pursuit across the ice, the demand for a companion, the murders — comes from that flight rather than from the act of creation. Shelley began it at eighteen, in a wet summer on Lake Geneva, and the creature's own account of his abandonment remains the part readers cannot argue their way out of. The Gilded Library sets the text among period paintings of Alpine ice, laboratory gloom and solitary wandering; the ornament is built from lightning, glass retorts and thorn.
Complete and unabridged, with 99 full-page plates by Károly Markó, Jacob Philipp Hackert and Hermann Ottomar Herzog. Victor Frankenstein assembles a living creature in a candlelit attic, sees what he has made, and runs. Everything that follows — the pursuit across the ice, the demand for a compan...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was nineteen when she finished Frankenstein and twenty-four when she was widowed. Daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and of Mary Wollstonecraft, who died giving birth to her, she went on to write five more novels, two travel books and a great deal of unsigned journalism, and edited her husband's poetry into the shape posterity received it in.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was nineteen when she finished Frankenstein and twenty-four when she was widowed. Daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and of Mary Wollstonecraft, who died giving birth to her, she went on to write five more novels, two travel books and a great deal o...
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