{"title":"Frankenstein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"frankenstein","title":"Frankenstein","description":"                                            \u003cb\u003eLaunching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein \u003c\/i\u003eby Mary Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction. 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This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. 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