u003cbu003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of u003ciu003eFrankenstein u003c/iu003eby Mary Shelleyu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'u003c/bu003eu003cpu003eA twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen, u003ciu003eFrankensteinu003c/iu003e gave birth to the modern science fiction novel.u003c/pu003eu003cpu003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.u003c/pu003e
