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.
This book is in the following series:
Usborne Classics Retold
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story.
