Frankenstein
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has thrilled generations of readers for over two hundred years.
English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote Frankenstein during a summer spent near Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with her betrothed, Percy Bysshe Shelley, her step sister Claire Clairmont, poet George Gordon Byron, and Lord Byron's physician, John William Polidari. Inclement weather kept the group indoors and they challenged one another to create fantastic tales. Shelley's was the result of a haunting vision: ''I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.''
Rediscover this haunting tale with this elegant library edition featuring an embossed cover, iridescent highlighting and a gold foil-stamped spine, with a matching satin ribbon page marker.