Frankenstein (Black Classics) (Illustrated) (Paperback)

<p><strong>200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's <em>Frankenstein</em> has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece--a classic work of humanity and horror that blurs the line between man and monster...</strong><br><br>The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created has held readers spellbound ever since it was published two centuries 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 novel of hallucinatory intensity, <em>Frankenstein</em> represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.</p>