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Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE

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0141914394

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Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley

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Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley

As a young boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories of science that focus on achieving natural wonders. When he witnesses lightning strike an oak tree, splitting it in two, he is inspired to harness the power of lightning. His mother dies of scarlet fever weeks before he leaves for the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. At university, he excels at chemistry and other sciences, and develops a secret technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life. Piecing together the detritus of butcher shops and dissecting rooms, the doctor fashions an eight-foot-tall creature whose loathsome appearance fills even his creator with repulsion. Abandoned by his maker, rejected with fear and disgust by everyone he encounters, the enraged and embittered monster goes on a murderous rampage, determined to destroy Frankenstein by striking at those closest to him... Get Your Copy Now.

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1387048929

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9781387048922

Frankenstein

By: Mary W. Shelley

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Frankenstein

By: Mary W. Shelley

Originally written as a response to a challenge from Lord Byron? Frankenstein still haunts our minds with images of the dead brought back to hideous life. Mary Shelley's nineteenth-century masterpiece begins with a fateful rescue in the Arctic and slowly evolves into a gripping story of horror'a contest of wills between Victor Frankenstein and the monster he creates. Wandering through Europe? the confused creature searches for a father figure in the tortured scientist who stitched him together with body parts stolen from the grave. Themes of revenge? the philosophical limits of science? and forbidden knowledge are deeply explored in the greatest Gothic novel ever written. This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Shelley's complex vocabulary and references.

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158049594X

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9781580495943

Frankestein

o el nuevo prometeo

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankestein

o el nuevo prometeo

By: Mary Shelley

Frankenstein o El nuevo Prometeo es el paradigma de novela gótica creada como respuesta a la necesidad de adaptación del viejo mito griego a las modernas realidades científicas y literarias que el incipiente siglo XIX exigía a un grupo de escogidos creadores.Cuenta la tradición que en una velada literaria- entre rayos, truenos, lluvia torrencial y viento huracanado- Lord Byron, su amante Claire, Polidori y Percy y Mary Shelley se comprometieron a escribir la historia más terrorífica para el hombre nuevo alumbrado por los incipientes rumbos del Romanticismo. Como consecuencia de aquella enfebrecida noche, Polidori dio a luz El vampiro (orígen de Drácula) y Mary Shelley, el Frankenstein. En ambos casos, la posterior influencia de su juego literario habría de engendrar dos subgéneros narrativos que los tiempos posteriores han ido agrandando. En Frankenstein se decantan las posibilidades narrativas que ofrecía la antigua polémica sobre la construcción de autómatas, asunto tópico entre los científicos que disputaban sobre las razones éticas del saber. En la novela de Shelley, el doctor Frankenstein-un nuevo Pigmalión- termina dominado por su criatura y, con su invención, da forma literaria a uno de los mitos modernos con mayor raigambre popular.

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8441413096

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9788441413092

Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus

The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus

The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley's classic on man's blasphemous attempt to create life is accompanied by commentary on the author and the stylistic, thematic, and mythic aspects of the novel.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226752275

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9780226752273

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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1101662778

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9781101662779

Frankenstein

The Lynd Ward Illustrated Edition

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

The Lynd Ward Illustrated Edition

By: Mary Shelley

A master of woodcut technique, Lynd Ward created 64 distinctive engravings for this famous Gothic novel. His unusual perspectives and dramatic light-and-dark contrasts combine elements of Art Deco and German Expressionism.

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0486470539

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9780486470535

Frankenstein

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Frankenstein

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic tale of Frankenstein.

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1599611163

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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Mary Shelley

Frankenstein is a deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation, which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818.

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1853260231

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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

By: Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815 along the river Rhine in Germany, stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before, an alchemist engaged in experiments. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband Percy B. Shelley. In 1816, Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein after imagining a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story. In contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, Aldiss states that the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. The novel has had a considerable influence on literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.

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3985513333

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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley 1831 Edition

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley 1831 Edition

By: Mary Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. It is one of the great works of modern literature. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823.Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815 along the river Rhine in Germany stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before, an alchemist engaged in experiments.She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. The topic of galvanism and occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband Percy B. Shelley. Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made, inspiring the novel.

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1670401251

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Frankenstein

The Return of Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

By: Mary Shelley

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The Return of Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

By: Mary Shelley

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture―the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.

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Frankenstein (The Original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of the Science Fiction Classic)

By: Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein (The Original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of the Science Fiction Classic)

By: Mary Shelley

This carefully crafted ebook: “Frankenstein (The Original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of the Science Fiction Classic)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily revised 1831 edition, edited by Shelley, in part, because of pressure to make the story more conservative. Many scholars prefer the 1818 text to the more common 1831 edition. Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.

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8026848241

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9788026848240

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound

Soul Meets Soul on Lovers Lips.

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus Unbound

Soul Meets Soul on Lovers Lips.

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. On 8th July 1822 a month before his 30th birthday, during a sudden storm, his tragic early death by drowning robbed our culture of many fine expected masterpieces. But in his short spell on earth he weaved much magic. Whilst Prometheus Unbound is a four act lyric play it was not written to be performed as a play but staged within the imagination of the reader. It is a reply to Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound which has the hero stealing fire from the gods to give to mortals. Many think this work is Shelley's masterpiece as it represents a culmination of the poet's political thought and displays his considerable gift of lyrical expression. The play was written over 4 years as its progress was severely impeded by the tragic death of first his daughter Clara Everina in 1818 and then his son William in 1819. The fourth act, a warning that evil must be checked lest tyranny reign, was added many months after the first three had been completed and revised. Shelley compares his Prometheus to Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost: But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.

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1783949163

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9781783949168

Frankenstein

Or, The Modern Prometheus

By: Francine Prose,Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

Or, The Modern Prometheus

By: Francine Prose,Mary Shelley

A towering masterpiece of gothic fiction, Mary Shelley s "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" brought to life the horror and science fiction genres and spawned countless cultural offspring. With the image of the stumbling, flat-headed, boltnecked monster Boris Karloff made famous so pervasive, it s easy to forget how radical, insightful and, yes, terrifying the book is on its own terms. The would-be Prometheus of the book s title is the brilliant Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose studies in natural philosophy and chemistry lead him to become obsessed with building a living being out of old body parts and bringing it to life. But when he is miraculously successful, Victor is horrified at his creation, and the monster escapes into the night. Given life but little else, Frankenstein s creation turns to violence and, soon enough, vengeance upon his creator.

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1632060787

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9781632060785

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