Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 1965 1st Signet Books Paperback

Description: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 1965 1st Signet Books Paperback Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Tsao Blurb: “The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A brilliant exercise in the macabre, written with near-hallucinatory inten-sity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. Of its contemporary significance, Harold Bloom writes: "The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of Mary Shelley's novel is that the monster is more human than his creator. This nameless being, as much a modern Adam as his creator is a modern Prometheus, is more lovable than his creator and more hateful, more to be pitied and more to be feared, and above all able to give the attentive reader that shock of added consciousness in which aesthetic recognition compels a heightened realization of the self." With an Afterword by Harold Bloom” Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 1965 1st Signet Books Paperback Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Tsao Blurb: “The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A brilliant exercise in the macabre, written with near-hallucinatory inten-sity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. Of its contemporary significance, Harold Bloom writes: "The greatest paradox and most astonishing achievement of Mary Shelley's novel is that the monster is more human than his creator. This nameless being, as much a modern Adam as his creator is a modern Prometheus, is more lovable than his creator and more hateful, more to be pitied and more to be feared, and above all able to give the attentive reader that shock of added consciousness in which aesthetic recognition compels a heightened realization of the self." With an Afterword by Harold Bloom” × × × × × × × × × × Buy now and save! Tell a friend Visit store Watch now You might also like Pinocchio-Carlo Collodi, Charles Folkard - 1916 David McKay Company hardback God's Treasure House Unlocked - Charles G. Schuh 1887 Cranston & Stowe hardback Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed 1902 Grosset & Dunlap vintage hardback Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Riverside Library edition eBay integration by

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