Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic
titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon
markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and
treasure.
Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable
of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818.
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead
flesh and then, horrified at what he has done, abandons his creation. The
creature, an outcast because of his