Frankenstein

The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley`Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness`A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley`s chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.