Frankenstein

the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, modern criticism

This book might be part of the Norton critical edition series.

The original story of science gone berserk: one that changed how far our dreams can stretch. Imagine a human created out of corpses. A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Who is the monster: this tortured beast, or the man who made him?--Goodreads, LibraryThing.

A monster has been loosed upon the world--super-humanly strong, inhumanly vicious. Its inventor knows he must find and destroy it--halt its career of terror and …

339 pages

English language

Published Feb. 24, 1996 by W.W. Norton.

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978-0-393-96458-5
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Subjects
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851
  • Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
  • Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
  • Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
  • Scientists in literature
  • Monsters in literature

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