Frankenstein : Or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley; The Late M K Joseph
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780199537167
0-19-953716-X

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literature--the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science,.

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