As lightning flashes across the night sky, Victor Frankenstein succeeds in the ultimate scientific experiment - the creation of life. But lonely and rejected, the being he creates soon turns on Victor and his family, with terrifying and tragic results.
This book is part of a book series called Usborne Classics Retold .
This book was published 2013 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .
John Grant is author of about seventy books, including the highly successful Discarded Science, Corrupted Science , and Denying Science . For a number of years he ran the world-famous fantasy artbook publisher Paper Tiger. He has won the Hugo Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award, and various other international literary awards.
This book contains the following story:
Frankenstein
Also known by "the Modern Prometheus", Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a strange story. Victor Frankenstein creates a monster which he then abandons. His Monster is therefore forced to cope alone, and in a world that values beauty finds that he is hated. Unsurprisingly the Monster gets cross and seeks revenge on his maker, causing all manner of trouble.
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Usborne Classics Retold
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