frankenstein or the modern prometheus by mary wollstonecraft shelley

'Dream that my little baby came to life again that it had only been cold, and that we rubbed it before the fire, and it lived,' she wrote in her diary.

'Nurse the baby, read,' she had written in her diary, day after day, until the eleventh day: 'I awoke in the night to give it suck it appeared to be sleeping so quietly that I would not awake it,' and then, in the morning, 'Find my baby dead.' With grief at that loss came a fear of 'a fever from the milk.' Her breasts were swollen, inflamed, unsucked her sleep, too, grew fevered. 'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley began writing 'Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus' when she was eighteen years old, two years after she'd become pregnant with her first child, a baby she did not name. Standard edition: bound in stamped leatherette, in laser-cut paper chemise, in slipcase with printed ship motifĪ limited number of unbound books in sheets are available for bookbinders at a 15% discount.The Strange and Twisted Life of Frankenstein

Large octavo, 9 5/8 by 6 3/4 inches, 274 pages The themes of the text-the responsibility of a creator for their creation, the ways in which new scientific and technological discoveries can fundamentally change our relationships to each other and the world, the dangers of pursuing knowledge over all other human concerns-ring true even, and especially, today.ĭeluxe edition of 30 copies for sale - Sold Out This Arion artist book edition seeks to situate Shelley’s work in a contemporary setting that refocuses the spotlight from the monstrous to the human struggle that drives the core of the story. Frankenstein’s tale, yet growing directly from the heart of Shelley’s story. The resulting black and white drawings appear both surprisingly modern and timeless, departing from the gothic visuals traditionally associated with Dr. When the drawings are sized-down to fit the pages of the book, the accumulation of lines creates an effect similar to the cross-hatching incised into an etching plate. The paper was spun and the process repeated from different angles to construct a picture. With each horizontal mark, ink dribbled downwards. These mechanisms in place, a series of horizontal lines was made on the paper. Sheets of butcher paper were pinned to a board fixed to the wall by means of a turntable. For the project, Hawkinson built a customized pen tool incorporating a hypodermic needle stylus and gravity-fed ink reservoir.

Frankenstein or the modern prometheus by mary wollstonecraft shelley