Frankenstein

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved; essential classics. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes; and my candle was nearly burnt out; when; by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light; I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...' Victor Frankenstein's monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead; taken from 'the dissecting room and the slaughter-house'. The result is a grotesque being who; rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship; sets out on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror story ever told; Shelley confronts the limitations of science; the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years later; this chilling tale of a young scientist's desire to create life - and the consequences of that creation - still resonate today.