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A deluxe gift edition of the gothic masterpiece about a creator who abandons his creature.

This beautiful deluxe gift edition presents Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece in a hardback with foiled covers, marbled endpaper, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.

Explorer Robert Walton rescues Victor Frankenstein from the Arctic ice and hears the story behind his ruin. As a young scientist, Victor discovers how to animate lifeless matter and creates a living being. Horrified by his own achievement, he abandons the creature, setting in motion a tragic cycle of rejection, revenge, murder and pursuit across Europe and into the frozen north.

Frankenstein is a foundational work of Gothic fiction and science fiction about creation, ambition, responsibility, loneliness and the monstrous consequences of refusing compassion. This Vintage Collector’s Classics edition is a powerful gift for readers and collectors.

Publisher Review

* “Frankenstein launched an entire genre of dystopian fiction, and a legacy of horror at the consequences of unbridled experimentation.” –Daily Telegraph