Frankenstein (Original) (Leather Bounded)

Frankenstein (Original) (Leather Bounded)

byMarry Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein remains the most haunting origin story of modern science, a lightning-lit meditation on creation, responsibility, and the loneliness that follows when we make something powerful without deciding how to love it; told through nested narratives and letters that frame Victor Frankenstein’s confession against the stark Arctic, the novel moves from the intimacy of a student’s feverish laboratory to the vastness of mountain passes and icy seas, and the contrast becomes its moral instrument, measuring human ambition against the scale of nature and consequence. You meet Victor as a brilliant, blinkered seeker who refuses ordinary limits, then meet the being he assembles, a creature who learns to speak, read, and ache in secret until rejection hardens into rage; the result is a story that argues with itself in real time, asking whether monstrosity is built in or taught, whether knowledge without care is wisdom or vanity, and whether justice is possible once harm has begun. “I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel,” the creature insists, a line that captures the book’s precise ache: innocence curdled by neglect, tenderness repaid with fear. The themes are clean to map for students and rich for lifelong readers—creation and culpability, parenthood and abandonment, the ethics of discovery, the seductions and limits of Enlightenment reason, the sublime as both refuge and rebuke—and the epistolary structure rewards analysis because each voice reveals motive, bias, and blind spots. Set pieces still land with total authority: the clandestine experiments, the awakening no one is ready for, the De Lacey cottage where the creature learns to be human by watching humans, the polar pursuit where pride and grief run out into cold light. This leather-bound hardcover 2005 edition, an original print and preowned but fresh copy curated by Pathok Point, gives the novel a body worthy of rereads and annotation: durable binding, elegant detailing, and condition selected so pages are clean and the spine is tight, delivering a copy meant to be lived with rather than merely displayed. For coursework, the book is a gift: motifs you can track without strain (light and fire, birth and naming, mirrors and doubles, seasons and landscapes), a narrator whose unreliability is productive rather than tricksy, and a debate that connects cleanly to contemporary questions around artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and research ethics; for general readers, the prose is swift, clear, and unexpectedly tender in its attention to longing and exile; for collectors, original-print credibility paired with leather binding offers long-term value without turning the novel into an artifact you’re afraid to open. Pathok Point’s promise is simple and proven: making books affordable while keeping authenticity and quality front and center, and we can say it plainly because we operate at scale—no one else consistently brings this level of treasure to market at this level of accessibility; as the largest preowned bookseller in BD, we source widely, condition-check carefully, and list only copies truly ready to read and to keep. Inventory reality check: preowned leather-bound originals arrive in small, unpredictable waves and the finest copies move first, so if you’re seeing this available, that’s your cue; whether you’re building a Gothic shelf, prepping a seminar on science and society, or gifting a classic that still feels urgently contemporary, this edition delivers Shelley’s cold fire in a form built to last—add to cart and let a novel about making life remind you what it means to be responsible for it.