Description |
xx, 239 pages ; 19 cm |
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Oxford world classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Summary |
To many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Mary Shelley began it, she was only 18, though she was already Shelley's mistress and Byron's friend. In her preface she explains how she and Shelley spent part of a wet summer with Byron in Switzerland, amusing themselves by reading and writing ghost stories. Her contribution was Frankenstein, a story about a student of natural philosophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-houses. The story is not a study of the macabre, as such, but rather a study of how man uses his power, through science, to manipulate and pervert his own destiny, and this makes it a profoundly disturbing book |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [xvi]-xvi |
Subject |
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Frankenstein (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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Scientists -- Fiction.
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Monsters -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Science fiction. Horror tales.
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Classical fiction
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Horror tales.
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Author |
Joseph, M. K.
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LC no. |
98219860 |
ISBN |
0192834878 |
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