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The birth of the monster genre? Yes. The birth of modern science fiction? Also yes. Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is as timeless as it is tantalizing. On its surface the story of a scientist bent on creating life, while underneath a criticism of human nature, this story is required in all minds and on all shelves.

Mary Shelley’s haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok—now in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker...

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It’s a Classic!: Must-Read Novels That Everyone Should Read

It’s a Classic!: Must-Read Novels That Everyone Should Read

December 16th is Jane Austen’s birthday, and in honor of this (and of the stunning Deluxe Edition of Pride and Prejudice), we simply had to do a post all about the classics that if you didn’t read in school, we think you should read right now! With beautiful editions for collectors and for first-time readers […]
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