Frankenstein, the Penguin Classics paperback
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818
- Edition
- Edition Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
- ISBN
- ISBN 9780143131847
- Form
- Form Novel
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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
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The book, the Penguin Classics edition, in a rigid mailer.
An ex libris stamp pressed into the title page, the Daily Canon mark, with a line for your name.
A bookmark embossed with the mark, made for us by Mount Street Printers in London.
A postcard of the book’s own sky, the painted scene the app opens on.
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About the book
On a dreary night of November, a being's dull yellow eye opens for the first time, and the man who built it bolts from the room in terror of his own success. Everything in Mary Shelley's novel turns on that flight. Begun when she was eighteen, during a rain-locked Geneva summer where Byron had set ghost stories as a parlour game, Frankenstein outgrew the competition and became the first true work of science fiction. Its creature is no lurching brute: he teaches himself to read from Milton and Plutarch and Goethe, reasons his way to a full understanding of how completely he has been cast out of human warmth, and asks Victor for one thing only, a companion made like himself. The terror here is not the stitched body on the table. It is the maker who gives a creature a mind and then refuses to answer for the loneliness he has made.