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Frankenstein
or 'The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text
Langbeschreibung
The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are The Forger's Shadow (Picador 2002), The Union Jack (Atlantic 2006, rev. edn 2017), The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2012), The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (Atlantic 2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing to Shakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (2014), Matthew Lewis's The Monk (2016), and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (2017) for Oxford World's Classics.
ISBN-13:
9780198840824
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.10.2019
Seiten:
226
Autor:
Mary Shelley
Gewicht:
215 g
Format:
196x132x20 mm
Serie:
Oxford World's Classics
Sprache:
Englisch