{"product_id":"9780141439471","title":"Frankenstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Shelley, Mary \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/01\/2003,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141439471,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York TimesMary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of  Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56442676937077,"sku":"9780141439471","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141439471.jpg?v=1765009742","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141439471","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}