Frankenstein
(1818 Edition)
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- £0.99
Publisher Description
A special ebook edition of the 1818 text featuring:
*All-new illustrated dropcaps
*High-quality ebook formatting
The book design for this edition is informed by Percival's "The Language of Flowers", and each flower within that poem is used for the volume's drop caps. Great care was taken to craft an ebook edition with design that enhances—but does not distract from—the experience of reading this classic Romantic novel.
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This audio version of Shelley's classic hits all the book's emotional highpoints thanks to a terrific tag team of readers a choice that is amply justified by the book's structure: explorer Robert Walton's correspondence with his sister; Victor Frankenstein's narration of his life and misguided efforts to play God; and the infamous monster's first-person account of how he made his way in the world. All three narrators are adept at modulating their tone to suit a scene's mood Roger May reads Walton's sections, Daniel Philpott narrates Frankenstein's, and Jonathan Oliver handles the monster's sections but the heavy lifting falls to Philpott, who conveys his character's passion, ambition, and ultimate horror at what his creation has done, which includes an accidental killing that strikes the scientist very close to home. For any listener familiar only with filmed treatments of this seminal tale of terror, this is a good way to experience the original.
