{"product_id":"frankenstein","title":"Frankenstein","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s iconic gothic novel, also a key work for science fiction genre and the Romantic movement, continues to inspire adaptations on stage and on film. It was conceived when she was only eighteen and living with her future husband Percy Shelley in Switzerland and first published in 1818.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdited with an Introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e''That rare story to pass from literature into myth', \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Mary Shelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54510585119059,"sku":"9780141439471","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9780141439471.jpg?v=1786049432","url":"https:\/\/www.vanitaspress.co.uk\/products\/frankenstein","provider":"Vanitas Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}