{"product_id":"frankenstein-9781720764854","title":"Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mary Shelley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo many readers, who have perhaps known Frankenstein only at second hand, the original may well come as a surprise. When Mary Shelley began it, she was only 18, though she was already Shelley's mistress and Byron's friend. In her preface she explains how she and Shelley spent part of a wet summer with Byron in Switzerland, amusing themselves by reading and writing ghost stories. Her contribution was Frankenstein, a story about a student of natural philosophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-houses. The story is not a study of the macabre, as such, but rather a study of how man uses his power, through science, to manipulate and pervert his own destiny, and this makes it a profoundly disturbing book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45549833650327,"sku":"9781720764854","price":811.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781720764854.webp?v=1767130564","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/frankenstein-9781720764854","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}