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Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780393979381
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, "Frankenstein." Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.

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 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months - a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and subsequent marriage - she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818 and 1831, which were based on a later fair copy." "Until now, no one has been able to read what Mary Shelley herself initially wrote in this original draft of the novel. Going back to the unique draft manuscript of the text held in the Bodleian Library, Charles E. Robinson has teased out Percy Shelley's amendments, isolating them from the story in Mary Shelley's hand. Both texts - with and without Percy's interventions - are presented in this edition, allowing us for the first time to read the story in Mary's original hand and also to see how Percy edited his wife's prose."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • 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  Modern English Translation

Download or read book Frankenstein Modern English Translation written by Mary Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully edited for modern readers to allow for easier reading Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body he's determined to bring to life. And one fateful night, he does. When the creature opens his eyes, the doctor is repulsed: his vision of perfection is, in fact, a hideous monster. Dr. Frankenstein abandons his creation, but the monster won't be ignored, setting in motion a chain of violence and terror that shadows Victor to his death. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a gripping story about the ethics of creation and the consequences of trauma, is one of the most influential Gothic novels in British literature. It is as relevant today as it is haunting.

Book Frankenstein s Fright Before Christmas

Download or read book Frankenstein s Fright Before Christmas written by Ludworst Bemonster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein is back and taking over Christmas in this hilarious send-up of Clement C. Moore's famous poem!

Book Frankenstein s Monster and Scientific Methods

Download or read book Frankenstein s Monster and Scientific Methods written by Christopher L. Harbo and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning the steps of the scientific method doesn't have to be scary. Join Frankenstein's monster as he uncovers the importance of forming a hypothesis, conducting experiments, and communicating results. You'll give your knowledge of scientific investigation a boost with a monster dose of humor.

Book Frankenstein s Cat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Anthes
  • Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2013-03-12
  • ISBN : 142994952X
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein s Cat written by Emily Anthes and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of Nature's Summer Book Picks One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole new toolbox for tinkering with life. How are we using it? In Frankenstein's Cat, the journalist Emily Anthes takes us from petri dish to pet store as she explores how biotechnology is shaping the future of our furry and feathered friends. As she ventures from bucolic barnyards to a "frozen zoo" where scientists are storing DNA from the planet's most exotic creatures, she discovers how we can use cloning to protect endangered species, craft prosthetics to save injured animals, and employ genetic engineering to supply farms with disease-resistant livestock. Along the way, we meet some of the animals that are ushering in this astonishing age of enhancement, including sensor-wearing seals, cyborg beetles, a bionic bulldog, and the world's first cloned cat. Through her encounters with scientists, conservationists, ethicists, and entrepreneurs, Anthes reveals that while some of our interventions may be trivial (behold: the GloFish), others could improve the lives of many species-including our own. So what does biotechnology really mean for the world's wild things? And what do our brave new beasts tell us about ourselves? With keen insight and her trademark spunk, Anthes highlights both the peril and the promise of our scientific superpowers, taking us on an adventure into a world where our grandest science fiction fantasies are fast becoming reality.

Book The Annotated Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-31
  • ISBN : 0674055527
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Annotated Frankenstein written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, in an annotated edition that offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds.

Book Frankenstein  the Mad Science of Dick Briefer

Download or read book Frankenstein the Mad Science of Dick Briefer written by Dick Briefer and published by Dark Horse Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume collects material previously published in the Crestwood Publishing Co. comic book series Frankenstein #1 through #7, 1945-1947."--Title page verso.

Book Frankenstein

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel J. Umland
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780822004981
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein written by Samuel J. Umland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jump-start your understanding of Mary Shelley's famous story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and his monstrous creation by opening the pages of CliffsNotes on Frankenstein, the study guide that can raise your insight as well as your test scores! Here, you'll explore the relationship between the monster and his creator, but with CliffsNotes on Frankenstein you'll also get in-depth character analysis, critical essays, and insight into the novel's literary devices. You'll also discover background information on the life of Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley and the creation of this, her most famous work, which was sparked by a suggestion that her circle of friends each write a ghost story to pass the time.

Book Global Frankenstein

Download or read book Global Frankenstein written by Carol Margaret Davison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.

Book Shelley s Frankenstein

Download or read book Shelley s Frankenstein written by Graham Allen and published by Continuum. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect study guide to Shelley's classic gothic novel, Frankenstein - a key text for introductory literature courses at undergraduate level.

Book The Frankenstein Legend  a Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff

Download or read book The Frankenstein Legend a Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff written by Donald F. Glut and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Frankenstein-figuren på film, teater, TV og i litteraturen

Book The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein

Download or read book The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein written by Caroline Picart and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text showcases the versatility of the Frankenstein myth as expressed in cinema's horror genre. It offers a sustained critical analysis of the story's evolution over many decades, many studios, and many different styles of film-making, employing both primary texts and scholarly examination.

Book Frankenstein s Guests

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Downing
  • Publisher : Samuel French Limited
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Frankenstein s Guests written by Martin Downing and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shorter, re-worked version of The house of Frankenstein! in which the Baron tries to counsel and cure a motley crew of monsters he's invited to his castle, immediately regretting his action when the Baroness hits the bottle, his guests reveal their true colours and all hell is let loose! A most musing, finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies, and great fun for actors and audiences alike.