{"product_id":"frankenstein-bantam-classics","title":"Frankenstein (Bantam Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's \u003ci\u003eThe Great American Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination-fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelly about science, galvanism, and the origins of life-conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of \"The Modern Prometheus\" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind. \u003cp hidden=\"hidden\"\u003eShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61895701922162,"sku":"12524L4","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/9182\/5266\/files\/index_e029c3b3-af28-4c59-ad05-651a1a9fd57a.jpg?v=1780416797","url":"https:\/\/book-efairs.follettcontent.com\/products\/frankenstein-bantam-classics","provider":"Follett Book eFairs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}