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Frankenstein

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ISBN-10: 1593080050

ISBN-13: 9781593080051

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Karen Karbiener, Karen Karbiener

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At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of science student Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with “bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.” Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts; but upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. Tormented by loneliness, the creature unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator. Frankenstein, an instant best-seller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science- fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound questions about the nature of life and the…    
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List price: $4.95
Publisher: Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 4.13" wide x 6.75" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

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About Longman Cultural Editions
About This Edition
Introduction
Table of Dates Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III from Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)
M. W. S.s Introduction
Some Additions to Robert Waltons first letters
Some Additions and Revisions to Victor Frankensteins Narrative
Victors childhood and the adoption of Elizabeth Victors enchantment with occult science and his encounter with modern science Victors departure for University of shy;Ingolstadt Clervals straits Victor meets Professors Krempe and Waldman Victors health suffers Elizabeths report on Ernest Frankenstein Clervals lament for William Victors anguish over Justine and William shy;Victors continuing agony [Creatures story of framing Justine] Victors plans for a second creature Clervals imperial ambitions Victors apprehensions for his family, his longing for oblivion Victors secret Contexts
Monsters, Visionaries, and Mary Shelley Aesthetic Adventures Edmund Burke on the Sublime and the Beautiful Mary Wollstonecraft on Burkes genderings William Gilpin on the Picturesque Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman: Jemimas story Mary Godwin (Shelley), from her journal of 1815: the death of her first baby Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Alasto; or, The Spirit of Solitude Mary Shelley, with Percy Bysshe Shelley, from History of a Six Weeks Tour: Alpine scenery Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mont Blanc George Gordon, Lord Byron from Manfred, A Dramatic Poem from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto the Third: Alpine thunderstorm Leigh Hunt, from Blue-Stocking Revels, or The Feast of the Violets Dr. Benjamin Spock, from Baby and Child Care The Story-Telling Compact George Gordon, Lord Byron, A Fragment John William Polidori, The Vampyre God, Adam, and Satan Genesis: chapters 2 and 3 (King James Bible) John Milton, from Paradise Lost William Godwin, from Political Justice George Gordon, Lord Byron, Prometheus William Hazlitt, remarks on Satan, from Lectures on the English Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley from Prometheus Unbound from A Defence of Poetry Richard Brinsley Peake, Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama in Three Acts
Reviews and Reactions
[John Wilson Croker], Quarterly Review, January 1818
[Walter Scott], Blackwoods Edinburgh Review, March 1818
(Scots) Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, March 1818
Belle Assemblee, March 1818
British Critic, April 1818
Gentlemans Magazine, April 1818
Monthly Review, April 1818
Literary Panorama, June 1818
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, March 1823
London Morning Post, reviews of Peakes Frankenstein, July 1823
George Canning, remarks in Parliament, March 1824
Knights Quarterly Magazine, August 1824
London Literary Gazette, 1831
[Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous], Anthenum, November 1832
Frankentalk: Frankenstein in the Popular Press of Today
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