Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus: Introduction by Douglas Clegg Annotated and Illustrated by Ken Everett with Author Biography and Bibliography

ISBN-10: 1983291838
ISBN-13: 9781983291838
Pages: 236
Language: English
Published: 2018-06-27
Authors: Mary Shelly, Kenneth Everett

Description

This is the complete unabridged version of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley. This book includes a guide to present and explain the literary work of this book including a Book Summary, a Publication History and Critical Reception, a Character List, a Character Analysis and Character Map, and Summaries, Analysis, and Glossary for the Chapters. Also, for the readers pleasure the book is illustrated. There is also an Author Biography and Bibliography. With an introduction by Douglas Clegg.Frankenstein a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. Frankenstein triumphs as he reanimates a dead body, and then becomes guilty for creating such a thing. When the "Frankenstein monster" realizes how he came to be and is rejected by mankind, he seeks revenge on his creator's family to avenge his own sorrow. Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein as a short story after the poet Lord Byron suggested his friends each write a ghost story. The story so frightened Byron that he ran shrieking from the room.