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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, "the modern Prometheus,ż tried to do what he perhaps should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical termsżas a seminal example of romanticism or as a groundbreaking early work of science fictionżMary Shelley was keenly aware of contemporary scientific developments and incorporated them into her story. In our era of synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate engineering, this edition of Frankenstein will resonate forcefully for readers with a background or interest in science and engineering, and anyone intrigued by the fundamental questions of creativity and responsibility.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Science fiction Classic science fiction

• Full title: Frankenstein
• Author: Mary Shelley, David H. Guston, Ed Finn, Jason Scott Robert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780262533287
• ISBN: 0262533286
• ID: 14423292
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 496 g
• Dimensions: 226 × 167 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. May 2017

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