Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus - The 1818 Text

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Description: Amazon.com Review Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes ... (more)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Release date: 14 August 2008
ISBN-10 : 0199537151 | ISBN-13: 9780199537150

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