{"product_id":"frankenstein-book-mary-wollstonecraft-shelley-9781418454777","title":"Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eIt was on a dreary night in November,\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eThat I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003ealmost amounted to agony, I\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eCollected the instruments of life around me \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eHow can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eDelineate the wretch whom with such infinite\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003ePains and care I had endeavoured to form?\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eFRANKENSTEIN or THE MODERN PROMETHEUS by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley is considered a masterpiece of gothic horror and science fiction. The novel was first published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city\u003e\u003cst1:place\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eLondon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:city\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003e in 1818, and it adeptly illustrates, with a resounding magnitude, the ideas and visions of the Romantic Movement as realized by the poets Percy Shelley and George Gordon Lord Byron. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eMelding the surreal and the real, the conscious and the subconscious, the nightmare and the dream, Mary Shelley, guided by the literary ambitions of her husband Percy, the philosophical legacy of her father William Godwin and the ghost of her feminist mother Mary Wollstonecraft, gives us Victor Frankenstein, a hero reminiscent of Ahab, in dark pursuit of the hideous progeny which is also his alter-ego, the Monster.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\"\u003eIn the end, FRANKENSTEIN is a tale of madness and longing, the bonds of parent and child, friends and lovers. 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