{"product_id":"frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-paperback","title":"Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeanette Winterson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM - The most famous horror story in world literature--the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster--is also a profoundly moving masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures a New Introduction by Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley's novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism's finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY SHELLEY was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797 in London, the daughter of William Godwin, a radical philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a renowned feminist and the author of \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\u003c\/i\u003e As a teenager, she eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his first wife. She began work on \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e in 1816 in Switzerland, while they were staying with Lord Byron, and it was published in 1818 to immediate acclaim. She died in London in 1851. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Introducer: \u003c\/b\u003e JEANETTE WINTERSON was born in Manchester, England. After graduating from Oxford University she published her first novel at age 25, \u003ci\u003eOranges Are Not The Only Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, to widespread acclaim and a BAFTA for her BBC TV adaption. She has written ten novels for adults, as well as children's books, non-fiction, and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52753243177293,"sku":"9780307743312","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/buQHLYetJF9780307743312.webp?v=1762937435","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}