{"product_id":"frankenstein-by-mary-shelley","title":"'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eStill one of the most intelligent and unsettling novels ever written about creation, responsibility, and revenge, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1064\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e is far stranger than its afterlife in popular culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eShelley’s monster is not a lumbering prop but a thinking, eloquent being, and the real horror lies less in animation than in abandonment: what happens when a maker refuses any duty to what he has made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1609\"\u003eWritten out of Gothic materials but sharpened by philosophical force, the novel cuts into ambition, loneliness, scientific arrogance, and the fantasy that invention can be separated from consequence. It remains one of those rare canonical books that actually earns the adjective modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1992 Penguin Classics paperback, edited and introduced by Maurice Hindle. Standard scholarly reading edition, great condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273880825939,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-25T091321.553.png?v=1774390415","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}