Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

One Of The Bbcs '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''that Rare Story To Pass From Literature Into Myth' The York Timesmary Shelleys Chilling Gothic Tale Was Conceived When She Was Only Eighteen, Living With Her Lover Percy Shelley On Lake Geneva. The Story Of Victor Frankenstein Who, Obsessed With Creating Life Itself, Plunders Graveyards For The Material To Fashion A Being, But Whose Botched Creature Sets Out To Destroy His Maker, Would Become The Worlds Most Famous Work Of Horror Fiction, And Remains A Devastating Exploration Of The Limits Of Human Creativity. Based On The Third Edition Of 1831, This Volume Contains All Mary Shelleys Revisions To Her Story, And Also Includes 'a Fragment' By Lord Byron And Dr John Polidoris 'the Vampyre: A Tale'.