{"product_id":"frankenstein-9780553212471-new","title":"Frankenstein","description":"\"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.\" A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52158094114976,"sku":"9780553212471-new","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0463\/0115\/1392\/files\/51rwUatHfNL.jpg?v=1736152787","url":"https:\/\/shop.mtwyouth.org\/products\/frankenstein-9780553212471-new","provider":"More Than Words ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}