Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus

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Vintage, 2007 - Fiction - 231 pages
One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. As he is nursed back to health, Victor Frankenstein recounts his story is of ambition, murder, and revenge. As a young scientist Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final scientific frontier and create life itself. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and whose life can only lead to tragedy.

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About the author (2007)

Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after Lord Byron arranged a ghost story competition during a vacation holiday.

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