Mary Shelley
1) Frankenstein
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Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...
2) Frankenstein
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Victor Frankenstein leads an idyllic life in Switzerland with his family and friends until a thirst for knowledge sends him off in search of something that no human being has yet attained--the ability to create life. Victor's success soon proves that, through the work of his own hands, he and his family are destined to live a life of pain and suffering.
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"Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences." "Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary...
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2018
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Did Victor Frankenstein really create a monster? What do you call a living being who was put together from animal and human pieces - and infused with the spark of life? Do you call him human or non-human? What makes Victor Frankenstein more human than his creation? Frankenstein was first published in 1818 when Mary Shelley was twenty years old. Two hundred years later, the themes of humanity and scientific creation remain relevant for our modern...
9) The last man
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c1965
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The novel ends in 2100, "the last year of the world," when a devastating plague has wiped out humanity except for one man.
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[2017]
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"Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley's early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author's revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein's indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory,...
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1978
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FRANKENSTEIN The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication over 150 years ago. A novel of tense and steadily mounting horror, it offers a searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a lonely, tortured monster brought to life in an alien world. DRACUIAThis masterpiece of Gothic horror...
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2018.
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For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition...
16) Frankenstein
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A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic horror story about the scientist who creates a hideous being only to have the monster turn on him and his family.
18) Frankenstein
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein dreamed of achieving great things through science. Even to create life. When things go horribly wrong, he turns away from the monster he created. Now Frankenstein's creation is filled with hatred and roaming the countryside. Can the monster be destroyed?
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