books by Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
Mary Shelley
Penguin Classics
, 2007
A praiseworthy addition to the Frankenstein legacy!
Daniel Clowes, the artistic genius who brought us Ghost World and Ice Haven, focuses his immense talents to reconfigure Shelley timeless literary masterpiece to fit the boundaries the four-color page. The result: one of the best comic book portrayal of the monster ...
Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
Mary Shelley
Pocket
, 2004
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
I bought this for my son for a school reading assignment. He did not like the book at all. Me, on the other hand, I liked it. I read it years & years ago but I enjoyed it the 2nd time around.
Frankenstein: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic
Mary Shelley
Kaplan Publishing
, 2006
Read A Classic, and Prep for the SAT!
This is one of the best ways of learning SAT vocab, or simply vocab for your own personal gain. Read the classic work on the right, SAT words are in bold and defined on the left. The real kicker is that words are repeated throughout the book. After seeing words over ...
Frankenstein (Longman Cultural Editions)
Mary Shelley,
Susan J. Wolfson
Longman
, 2006
Frankenstein plus writings contemporaneous of the novel
Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is a major novel in Western Civilization. I always think of it as representing the paradigm shift from religion to science, embodied in the contrast with the myth of Faust with the story of ...
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
Horace Walpole
,
William Beckford
, ...
Penguin Classics
, 1968
Gothick Terror, Oriental Decadence, Romantic Vampyres...
This volume is an excellent introduction to four works of the Gothic mindset, which hit England at the end of the 1700s and lasted on into the early Romantic period, all the way up to the late decadence of the 1890s, winding up in Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE ...
Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Mary Shelley
Bedford/St. Martin's
, 2000
A book for all ages...
Frankenstein is a book for all ages. Frankenstein has shown versatility throughout its life. This book has been adapted by its readers to represent all eras. It offers the reader a look not only into the past but also to the near future. With such things as the ...
Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
W. W. Norton
, 1995
Gothic at its best
Mary Shelley was the daughter of the famous feminist and author, Mary Wollstonecraft, who is best known for her work The Vindication of the Rights of Women. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a young university student, Victor Frankenstein, obsesses with wanting to know ...
Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Mary Shelley,
Bram Stoker
, ...
Signet Classics
, 1978
TO DIE FOR!
Three classics books, three classic monsters, and three classic stories that have been told and retold time and time again, all here in one great book! I'm sure you Horror Film fans like me have seen the Boris Karloff Frankenstein, the Bela Lugosi Dracula, and the ...
Frankenstein (Signet Classics)
Mary Shelley
Signet Classics
, 2000
You've seen Karloff, now read the original
Once you read Shelley's classic you're going to scratch your head and wonder: Is this really the book that gave us the Karloff movie? Not to mention Herman Munster and Frankenberry. For over a century and half people have been cannibalizing this book for ideas, movies, ...
Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
Mary Shelley
Penguin Classics
, 2003
4-1/2 stars for a classic the movies messed up
Did the people who made the Frankenstein movie even read this book? All of the things that I associated with Frankenstein are creations of the movie alone. No Igor, no lightning striking the body, no grave-robbing (not directly referred to anyway), no mountain ...
Spark Notes Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
,
SparkNotes Editors
, ...
SparkNotes
, 2002
Good analysis
I don't advocate reading SparkNotes (or CliffNotes) but if you are a high school/college student with a busy schedule and don't have time to read Shelley's novel, this does give a complete and accurate summary of the book's contents; it also explores the themes and ...
Puffin Graphics: Frankenstein (Puffin Graphics (Graphic Novels))
Mary Shelley,
Gary Reed
Puffin
, 2005
Wow
I am not really into comics, but after picking this one up, I was impressed. Great graphics, especially after I found out it was done by Photoshop, and an easy to understand story. I think it was very well done and I look forward to seeing and reading more graphic ...
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dark Horse
, 2008
Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. Twenty-five years later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements ...
Classic Starts: Frankenstein (Classic Starts Series)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sterling
, 2006
Excellent Book
I am an 8 year old boy who read this book & I finished it in a whole week.The book was told by the letters of Captain Robert Walton. Walton meets Victor Frankenstein who was sooner or later going to marry his adopted sister Elizabeth. Frankenstein goes to university ...
Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
BookSurge Classics
, 2002
The story of Victor Frankenstein and his pursuit to unnaturally create man. Shelly’s Frankenstein shows us that when man tries to be God, he ultimately dooms himself.
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