Bibliograph

Frankenstein or, the modern prometheus, Mary Shelley ; with a new introduction by Douglas Clegg ; and an afterword by Harold Bloom

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Frankenstein or, the modern prometheus, Mary Shelley ; with a new introduction by Douglas Clegg ; and an afterword by Harold Bloom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-257)

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Frankenstein or, the modern prometheus

Responsibility statement

Mary Shelley ; with a new introduction by Douglas Clegg ; and an afterword by Harold Bloom

Summary

The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound since it was first published more than two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. It is a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster

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