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Book Frankenstein  Or  The Modern Prometheus

Download or read book Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781530607501
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was said to be the wisest of all the Titans. In the form of fire Prometheus is credited with bringing mankind knowledge and enlightenment. He stole fire from the Gods of Mount Olympus. For acting against the decree of the Gods, who wanted to keep the power of fire to themselves, Prometheus was harshly punished. He was chained to a rock to have his liver eaten out every day by an eagle. Every night his liver would grow back. This was to be his punishment for all of eternity. The full title of Mary Shelley's novel is Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Mary Shelley was influenced by this tale. Her husband Percy Shelley even began composing his own tale of Prometheus in the form of a poem entitled, Prometheus Unbound. He began composing this work right around the same time that Mary was publishing Frankenstein. Aside from the title, Shelley borrows from the tale of Prometheus a sense of consequence resulting from seeking enlightenment and power. Victor is her modern incarnation of Prometheus. He as Prometheus was, is fascinated by the power of electricity (lightning). We can recall from the narrative the moment when he becomes captivated by its fantastical power. It is from this power, that he has equipped himself with, that the inner torture he will suffer from the use of it stems. Immediately following the creation if the creature, Victor is ill with disgust for what he has done. His torture mirrors that of Prometheus'; undying and eternal. From the beginning of the novel, when Victor warns Walton of the consequences of his quest, to the conclusion when Victor again reiterates the misfortunes he has suffered as a result of his curiosity, Mary Shelley mimics the Prometheus tale. Perhaps, this is why she saw it as a fitting subtitle.

Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Shelley
  • Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 1617864080
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mary Shelley's classic tale of horror, Victor Frankenstein creates life--and a monster beyond his control. In trying to bring human life into being, Frankenstein lets loose a monster that will stop at nothing to destroy all that Frankenstein holds dear. Follow the powerful story of love, friendship, and fiends in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Shelley's Frankenstein. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

Book Frankenstein  or  The Modern Prometheus

Download or read book Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind.

Book The New Southern Gentleman

Download or read book The New Southern Gentleman written by Jim Booth and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover

Book Frankenstein  Or  the Modern Prometheus

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Book Frankenstein  Or  The Modern Prometheus   with Connections

Download or read book Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus with Connections written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press "Frankenstein" unites the dark side of Barry Moser's art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley's tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser shapes him from darkness and gives him a form simultaneously ghastly in its malice and transfixing in its suffering.

Book Mary s Monster

Download or read book Mary s Monster written by Lita Judge and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.

Book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus 1818

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus 1818 written by Mary Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Shelley
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-09-02
  • ISBN : 9781341311529
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Frankenstein

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  • Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Publisher : Norton Critical Editions
  • Release : 2021-08
  • ISBN : 9780393644029
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Norton Critical Editions. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because I'm teaching an intro-level course in comparative literature, this edition was extremely helpful in showing the variety of critical approaches that they can take toward a single text. The article on radical science also helped me compare Frankenstein to Alasdair Gray's Poor Things. I highly recommend this edition of Frankenstein and will use it in the future." -Joshua Beall, Rutgers University

Book Frankenstein  Or the Modern Prometheus

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982-03-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Frankenstein  Or  the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley written by Mary Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Book Frankenstein  Or  the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley  Annotated Edition

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley Annotated Edition written by Mary Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation genetic engineering, and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.

Book Frankenstein  Or  the Modern Prometheus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Shelley
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-05-14
  • ISBN : 9781719122856
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus written by Mary Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.[1] Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.

Book Gris Grimly s Frankenstein

Download or read book Gris Grimly s Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by Balzer + Bray. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells, in graphic novel format, Mary Shelley's classic tale of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Shelley
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-10-20
  • ISBN : 9781539635215
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.