Mary Shelley
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Eureka Productions
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Digital
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English
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Fantasy Classics presents Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," adapted by Rod Lott and Skot Olsen, with a prologue illustrated by Mark A. Nelson. Plus H. P. Lovecraft's epic fantasy "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," by Ben Avery and Leong Wan Kok, and "Oz" author L. Frank Baum's "The Glass Dog," by Antonella Caputo and Brad Teare. Also Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," adapted by Lance Tooks, and "After the Fire," a poem by Fantasy Master
...3) Frankenstein
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English
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Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. As the creature educates itself and learns how cruel mankind can be to something that they deem monstrous, he demands that Victor make him a companion, an Eve to his Adam. When Victor refuses, his...
4) The Last Man
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Last Man (1826) is a dystopian novel by Mary Shelley. Dedicated to the recently deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, The Last Man was controversial upon publication and was immediately suppressed by British authorities. Resurrected by dedicated critics and readers, the novel is now recognized as a pioneering work of science fiction and as the first work of dystopian literature to be published in English.
The ambitious and semi-autobiographical...
6) Frankenstein
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Español
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Victor Frankenstein apasionado por los avances cientificos, se muda de Ginebra a Ingolstadt para continua sus estudios y llevar a cabo sus investigaciones; en busca del secreto de la vida y sin medir las consecuencias que esto le traera, intenta crear un nuevo ser con partes de cadaveres de seres humanos. Pero su tranqulidad se vera interrumpida al conseguir darle vida a una criatura cuya sombra lo perseguira incansablemente el resto de su vida. El...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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English
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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.
This annotated edition offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds, and shows how she developed the story of a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies. The monster develops a mind of his own...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
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First edition.
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English
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"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge, ' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
15) Frankenstein
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Penguin Workshop
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English
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The reader's choices determine the path of Victor Frankenstein as he experiments on bringing the dead to life.
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Rocketbook
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English
Description
"Highly stylized and interactive, with chapter summaries, analyses and pop quizzes ... Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a man whose passion for knowledge leads to the creation of a hideous monster. Written when the author was just nineteen years old, Frankenstein is a classic because it speaks to modern matters just as it spoke to the concerns of the 19th century"--Container.
19) Frogenstein
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Persnickety Press
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English
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"Lonely middle-schooler Angus Munch has one friend - a very old frog named Frank, the science classroom pet. When Angus takes Frank home for the weekend, disaster strikes and Frank croaks! It will take all of Angus's science knowledge to bring his friend back to life - can he do it before school on Monday, or is Frank amphibian history?"
20) Frankenstein
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Modern Pub
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English
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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.