Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life he has created a monster. A monster which abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart.. Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg to the beautiful Swiss Alps to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations..'A masterpiece' - Philip Pullman. Also in Puffin Clothbound ClassicsBlack BeautyThe Secret GardenA Christmas CarolThe Wizard of OzTreasure IslandDraculaThe Little PrinceWuthering HeightsTales from Shakespeare|Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.|A masterpiece|More relevant today than ever|Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the worldVictor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to ... See more
Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life he has created a monster. A monster which abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart.. Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg to the beautiful Swiss Alps to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations..'A masterpiece' - Philip Pullman. Also in Puffin Clothbound ClassicsBlack BeautyThe Secret GardenA Christmas CarolThe Wizard of OzTreasure IslandDraculaThe Little PrinceWuthering HeightsTales from Shakespeare|Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.|A masterpiece|More relevant today than ever|Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the worldVictor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life, he has created a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets, follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart. Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg, to the beautiful Swiss Alps, to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle, in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations.'A masterpiece' - Philip PullmanAlso in Puffin Clothbound Classics:Black BeautyThe Secret GardenA Christmas CarolThe Wizard of OzTreasure IslandDraculaThe Little PrinceWuthering HeightsTales from Shakespeare Puffin Clothbound Classics - stunningly beautiful hardback editions of the most famous stories in the world. Victor Frankenstein has made a terrible mistake. In his desperate pursuit to create life he has created a monster. A monster which abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone it meets follows Dr Frankenstein to the very ends of the earth with horror and murder in its recycled heart.. Mary Shelley takes the reader on a journey through St Petersburg to the beautiful Swiss Alps to the desolate waste of the Arctic Circle in a story that has sent a chill down the spines of generations..'A masterpiece' - Philip Pullman. Also in Puffin Clothbound ClassicsBlack BeautyThe Secret GardenA Christmas CarolThe Wizard of OzTreasure IslandDraculaThe Little PrinceWuthering HeightsTales from Shakespeare
