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Frankenstein - or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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Frankenstein - or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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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... Frankenstein is 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. Written when Mary
Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost
stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the
Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural
elements an epic parable that warned against the threats to
humanity posed by accelerating technological progress. Published
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, Frankenstein continues to shape
our thinking in profound ways to this day.
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