Author: Shelley, Mary
Classic horror & ghost stories
Published on 20 March 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Collector's Classics' series.
Hardback | 224 pages
205 x 135 x 25 | 308g
A deluxe gift edition of the gothic masterpiece about a creator who abandons his creature. This beautiful deluxe gift edition presents Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece in a hardback with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon. Explorer Robert Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein from the Arctic ice and hears the story behind his ruin. As a young scientist, Victor discovers how to animate lifeless matter and creates a living being. Horrified by his own achievement, he abandons the creature, setting in motion a tragic cycle of rejection, revenge, murder and pursuit across Europe and into the frozen north. Frankenstein is a foundational work of Gothic fiction and science fiction about creation, ambition, responsibility, loneliness and the monstrous consequences of refusing compassion. This Vintage Collector’s Classics edition is a powerful gift for readers and collectors.