{"product_id":"frankenstein-book-mary-shelley-9780553212471","title":"Frankenstein","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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49635343499537,"sku":"CIN0553212478G","price":5.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665246757137,"sku":"GOR007669873","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49708097175825,"sku":"CIN0553212478A","price":5.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49968478159121,"sku":"GOR007806086","price":11.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49992456995089,"sku":"CIN0553212478VG","price":5.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983892517137,"sku":"NIN9780553212471","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0553212478.jpg?v=1756707356","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/frankenstein-book-mary-shelley-9780553212471","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}