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Frankenstein: An Enriched eBook: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Classics)

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  • Sales Rank:191,067
  • Format:Kindle eBook
  • Language:English (Published)
  • Media:Kindle Edition
  • Number Of Items:1
  • Pages:118
  • Publication Date:October 25, 2008
  • ASIN:B001J9Q44C
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Synopsis

"Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. 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 to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Enriched eBook Features Editor Charles E. Robinson provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:

* How to Read Frankenstein

* Appendix IV: From Plato’s Symposium

* Frankenstein Chronology

* Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Frankenstein

* Frankenstein Filmography

* Suggested Further Reading

* Illustrations: Mary Shelley, Her Circle, Her Environs, and Images of Frankenstein (1831-1910)

* Enriched eBook Notes

The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.

Amazon.com 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.
Synopsis

"Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. 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 to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Enriched eBook Features Editor Charles E. Robinson provides the following specially commissioned features for this Enriched eBook Classic:

* How to Read Frankenstein

* Appendix IV: From Plato’s Symposium

* Frankenstein Chronology

* Nineteenth-Century Reviews of Frankenstein

* Frankenstein Filmography

* Suggested Further Reading

* Illustrations: Mary Shelley, Her Circle, Her Environs, and Images of Frankenstein (1831-1910)

* Enriched eBook Notes

The enriched eBook format invites readers to go beyond the pages of these beloved works and gain more insight into the life and times of an author and the period in which the book was originally written for a rich reading experience.

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