Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein
Or, the Modern Prometheus, The Pennyroyal edition
$19.95, £13.95 paperback
9780520201798
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The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press Frankenstein unites the dark side of Barry Moser's art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley's tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser shapes him from darkness and gives him a form simultaneously ghastly in its malice and transfixing in its suffering.
"The handsomest edition of Frankenstein itself that has ever reached a mass audience. . . . Moser achieves a wedding of image and text which testifies to, even as it rivals, the imaginative achievement of Mary Shelley."—William Veeder, Modern Philology
"This is a book to elicit the powers of creativity, the awesome allure of making life oneself, and the responsibilities of unleashing a force which has a will—and very human feelings—of its own."—Anne Raver, Boston Herald
"The . . . format combined with Barry Moser's evocative illustrations make it the only edition of this 1818 classic worth acquiring."—Chronicles of Culture
"Moser's magnificent rendering . . . is a work of art bound for many collections."—Kansas City Star
"This is a book to elicit the powers of creativity, the awesome allure of making life oneself, and the responsibilities of unleashing a force which has a will—and very human feelings—of its own."—Anne Raver, Boston Herald
"The . . . format combined with Barry Moser's evocative illustrations make it the only edition of this 1818 classic worth acquiring."—Chronicles of Culture
"Moser's magnificent rendering . . . is a work of art bound for many collections."—Kansas City Star
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