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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics)

by Mary Shelley; Marilyn Butler
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336

Shelley's original vision cuts deeper than later revisions—sharper, stranger, more uncompromising in its dissection of scientific ambition and parental abandonment. The 1818 text moves with the raw energy of a nineteen-year-old's nightmares made manifest. This Oxford edition respects the binding's historical weight while keeping the prose alive on the page. For readers who prefer their gothic horror rooted in recognizable human failings, who understand that the most frightening monsters are those we create through good intentions.

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