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Mary Shelleys haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amoknow in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American ReadObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the worlds most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. This edition also includes A Fragment by Lord Byron and The Vampyre: A Tale by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle.Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.