{"product_id":"frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-the-1818-text-hardcover","title":"Frankenstein: Or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text - Hardcover","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 Wollstonecraft Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNick Groom\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrankenstein \u003c\/em\u003eis the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results for Victor and for his family are catastrophic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten when Mary Shelley was just eighteen, \u003cem\u003e Frankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e was inspired by the ghost stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural elements into an epic parable that warned against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has since become a byword for controversial practices in science and medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and, ultimately, what it is to be human, \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein \u003c\/em\u003econtinues to shape our thinking in profound ways to this day.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNick Groom\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in English at the University of Exeter. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are \u003cem\u003eThe Forger's Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eThe Union Jack\u003c\/em\u003e (2006, rev. edn 2017), \u003cem\u003eThe Gothic: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), \u003cem\u003eThe Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing to Shakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole's \u003cem\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), Matthew Lewis's \u003cem\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), and Ann Radcliffe's \u003cem\u003eThe Italian\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) for the \u003cem\u003eOxford World's Classics \u003c\/em\u003eseries\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755476869453,"sku":"9780198814047","price":34.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/gf7zpDgPP-9780198814047.webp?v=1776719028","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-the-1818-text-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}