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- catalog abstract ""To 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Frankenstein".
- catalog alternative "Modern Prometheus".
- catalog contributor b11391155.
- catalog contributor b11391156.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""To 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [xvi]-xvii.".
- catalog extent "xx, 239 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0192834878".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford world's classics".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "823/.7 21".
- catalog subject "Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Monsters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR5397 .F7 1998c".
- catalog subject "Scientists Fiction.".
- catalog title "Frankenstein".
- catalog title "Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by M.K. Joseph.".
- catalog title "Modern Prometheus".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "Horror tales. gsafd".
- catalog type "Science fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".