Frankenstein

<b>More than 200 years after it was first published Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein</i> has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece&#151;a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.</b><br><br><i>&#147;If I cannot inspire love I will cause fear.&#148;</i><br><br>For centuries the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity Mary Shelley&#146;s<i> Frankenstein</i> represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.&#160;<br> &#160;<br><br> <b>With an Introduction by Douglas Clegg</b><br><b> And an Afterword by Harold Bloom</b>