Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers) (USED)

Description: Product Description : Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics Hardcovers) Product DescriptionFrankenstein ranks among the most enduring horror tales ever imagined The groaning Monster bolts erupting from his neck and stitches fastening his square brow is famous worldwide But the creature born in Mary Shelleys mind nearly two hundred years ago was far more complex murderous andraging but also articulate lonely and gravely misunderstood by the world into which he was thrustThe story of Victor Frankenstein emerges in a series of letters penned by Walton an English explorer icebound in the Arctic While studying natural philosophy in Geneva Frankenstein discovers how to give life to inanimate matter and from dead flesh constructs a living being His Monsterpossesses superhuman speed and strength and learns of human emotion by studying Goethe Plutarch and Miltons Paradise Lost But as the creatures mind and thoughts develop his loneliness and misery build and he acts out in deadly violence When the scientist refuses to create a companion forhim the Monster lets loose his full wrath Berserk he murders Frankensteins wife then flees to the North Pole Frankenstein follows desperate to destroy his rampaging creation Once there he meets Walton and confesses the horror that is drawing him deep into the Arctic wastelandJeffery Deaver pours a suspense masters insight into his introduction exploring the authors drive to thrill and terrify and digging at the actual birthplace of Frankensteins monster Mary Shelleys mind The author of sixteen novels Deaver has appeared on bestseller lists around the worldHis novel The Bone Collector was produced as a feature film by Universal Pictures starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie and his most recent novel The Blue Nowhere is being produced by Warner BrothersReviewThe select bibliography by MK Joseph is of benefit to our studentsDr Darlene J Alberts Ohio Dominican CollegeAbout the AuthorJeffery Wilds Deaver is the author of many bestselling novels including The Coffin Dancer A Maidens Grave The Lesson of Her Death and The Bone Collector He lives in Reston Virginia( it is an used product )

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