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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. "The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the d ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For years Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature whom, he believes, will wo ...Show more
Frankenstein (Campfire Graphic) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Campfire Graphic
Man has long had the power to take life, but what will happen when he learns to give it? Intrigued by this question, young Victor Frankenstein - a devoted student of science - becomes obsessed with the idea of conjuring life out of 'lifeless matter'. Using his formidable skills in chemistry and other sc ...Show more
Frankenstein (Classic Comix) by Mary Shelley
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Comix
Story - Wikipedia's description: « 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. Shelley started writing ...Show more
Frankenstein (Alma Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost ...Show more
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-to ...Show more
Frankenstein: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Barnes & Noble Flexibound Editions
Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. Written when Mary Shelley was only 20 years old, Frankenste ...Show more
Frankenstein (Bounty Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Works
Mary Shelley's classic work, published when she was just twenty years old, tells the tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a terrifying creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Inspired after a competition between Shelley, her husband Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori to ...Show more
Frankenstein (Chartwell Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
About Shelley's Frankenstein "I read [Frankenstein] in one sitting, and by the end of it, I was weeping. It was my Road to Damascus. It illuminated the reason I loved monsters, my kinship with them, and showed me how deep, how life-changing, a monster parable could be--how it could function as art and ...Show more
Frankenstein (Collector's Edition) by MARY SHELLEY
Category: Classic | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and contextual materials, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Topics include "Sources, Influences, Ana ...Show more
Frankenstein (Collins Classics) by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...' Victor Frankenstein's monster is ...Show more
Frankenstein: DK Illustrated Classics by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classic
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most notorious and widely read Gothic novel. It has also been heralded as both the first modern horror novel and the first science fiction novel. More important than either is the novel's mythical status in society. The rich subtext of Frankenstein and the vast ...Show more