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Frankenstein Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

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ISBN-10: 0262533286

ISBN-13: 9780262533287

Edition: 2017

Authors: Mary Shelley, David H. Guston, Ed Finn, Jason Scott Robert, Charles E. Robinson

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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 astonishingly young but intellectually mature eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his bolt-necked, stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Frankenstein, "the modern Prometheus," tried to do what he should have left to Nature: create life. Although the novel is most often discussed in literary-historical terms -- as an example of Romanticism, of biographical interest for readers of the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley (Mary Shelley's…    
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/5/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Robin Preiss Glasser has illustrated numerous children's books including America: A Patriotic Primer, A is for Abigail, and Our Fifty States by Lynne Cheney, Daddy's Girl by Garrison Keillor, Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson, and the Fancy Nancy picture books by Jane O'Connor.Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He earned his B.A. at Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He has worked as a journalist at Time , Slate , and Popular Science . He lives in Arizona.