Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Gebundenes Buch

Frankenstein

Or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text

Herausgeber: Groom, Nick

Beschreibung

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.

Autor

Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are The Forger's Shadow (2002), The Union Jack (2006, rev. edn 2017), The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing to Shakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (2014), Matthew Lewis's The Monk (2016), and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (2017) for Oxford World's Classics.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 141mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780198814047
• ISBN-10: 0198814046
• Artikelnr.: 49565341