Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 2012 Barnes & Noble Signature Edition Paperback

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 2012 Barnes & Noble Signature Edition Paperback

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Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Blurb: “The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A brilliant exercise in the macabre, written with near-hallucinatory inten-sity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. Of its contemporary significance, Harold Bloom writes: "The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of Mary Shelley's novel is that the monster is more human than his creator. This nameless being, as much a modern Adam

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