{"product_id":"frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-the-1818-text-an-annotated-illustrated-novel-paperback","title":"Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (the 1818 Text): An Annotated \u0026 Illustrated Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. Grant Kellermeyer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods, and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens: the blast tore along like a mighty avelanche, and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits, that burst all bounds of reason and reflection. I lighted the dry branch of a tree, and danced with fury around the devoted cottage, my eyes still fixed on the western horizon, the edge of which the moon nearly touched. A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sunk, and, with a loud scream, I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected. The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it, and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.\" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The mutated hybrid of Enlightenment optimism and Gothic cynicism - of humanism and environmentalism - Frankenstein offers a chilling postmortem of humanity's confident drive to master and operate the cosmos' generative and degenerative functions. The disastrous fable of man's bastardization of nature is as much a tragedy of the neglected offspring of human ingenuity and cosmic nature as it is an elegy of the hopes for mankind's progress in the gory wake of the French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42717004628031,"sku":"9781492878414","price":26.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f969c111eec2b7b27eee7f197c6022ea.webp?v=1765076967","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/frankenstein-or-the-modern-prometheus-the-1818-text-an-annotated-illustrated-novel-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}