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Surely you know the story of Frankenstein by now, or at least the concept. Whether you’ve never read the book, or it’s been too long to remember the details, this classic horror story is one to add to your to-be-read list. We certainly adore this clothbound cover that will set your heart a flutter (just look at those anatomical hearts).  

Frankenstein is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothicism and the prototype of the twentieth-century science-fiction novel.

It was conceived in the Swiss Alps in mid-June 1816 after a conversation about bringing corpses to life provoked a nightmare, and was written over the next eleven months in largely morbid circumstances. Death and the terrors of childbirth--as much as Romanticism, a burgeoning awareness of unconscious drives, and contemporary ideas of atheism, the collapse of the s...

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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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