Frankenstein (Classics Illustrated Deluxe)
by Mary Shelley
Classics Illustrated Deluxe Graphic Novels (3)
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A graphic novel adaptation of Mary Shelly's classic novel about a young medical student who creates a living being from corpses and suffers violent consequences for his actions.Tags
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Frankenstein is about a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a creature of human likeness. The creature and Frankenstein have a love-hate relationship. This graphic novel explains more of why Victor created the creature. The creature gets out of control but is too powerful to be stopped.
I have always enjoyed the story of Frankenstein. I also enjoy reading different versions of this story. This book put a new twist on the original story.
I would use this book around Halloween. I would have a class discussion on different variations that could exist within this graphic novel. Next I would divide the class up into 3 teams. The first team would write the first part of the story. The second team would write the middle, and the third show more team would write the ending. We would put all three parts together for a wacky story! show less
I have always enjoyed the story of Frankenstein. I also enjoy reading different versions of this story. This book put a new twist on the original story.
I would use this book around Halloween. I would have a class discussion on different variations that could exist within this graphic novel. Next I would divide the class up into 3 teams. The first team would write the first part of the story. The second team would write the middle, and the third show more team would write the ending. We would put all three parts together for a wacky story! show less
The book is twist to the classic Frankenstein. The story is being told by Victor the scientist that created Frankenstein. He is telling the reason that he created the monster and how everybody thought that he was dreaming and making things up, until Frankenstein makes his appearances later in story and it shows that Victor.
I wasn’t a big fan of this book only because I’m not too big on the classic horror. I do think that my students will love this book because the original is dry so having the illustrations through the book gives them a picture of everybody looked during that period.
An extension will be to have the students find more classic horror that they like and compare it to Frankenstein. Another extension will be to have show more them create a play to this story. show less
I wasn’t a big fan of this book only because I’m not too big on the classic horror. I do think that my students will love this book because the original is dry so having the illustrations through the book gives them a picture of everybody looked during that period.
An extension will be to have the students find more classic horror that they like and compare it to Frankenstein. Another extension will be to have show more them create a play to this story. show less
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in England on August 30, 1797. Her parents were two celebrated liberal thinkers, William Godwin, a social philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a women's rights advocate. Eleven days after Mary's birth, her mother died of puerperal fever. Four motherless years later, Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, bringing show more her and her two children into the same household with Mary and her half-sister, Fanny. Mary's idolization of her father, his detached and rational treatment of their bond, and her step-mother's preference for her own children created a tense and awkward home. Mary's education and free-thinking were encouraged, so it should not surprise us today that at the age of sixteen she ran off with the brilliant, nineteen-year old and unhappily married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley became her ideal, but their life together was a difficult one. Traumas plagued them: Shelley's wife and Mary's half-sister both committed suicide; Mary and Shelley wed shortly after he was widowed but social disapproval forced them from England; three of their children died in infancy or childhood; and while Shelley was an aristocrat and a genius, he was also moody and had little money. Mary conceived of her magnum opus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, when she was only nineteen when Lord Byron suggested they tell ghost stories at a house party. The resulting book took over two years to write and can be seen as the brilliant creation of a powerful but tormented mind. The story of Frankenstein has endured nearly two centuries and countless variations because of its timeless exploration of the tension between our quest for knowledge and our thirst for good. Shelley drowned when Mary was only 24, leaving her with an infant and debts. She died from a brain tumor on February 1, 1851 at the age of 54. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Frankenstein (Classics Illustrated Deluxe) (Classics Illustrated Deluxe)
- People/Characters
- Victor Frankenstein; Frankenstein's Monster
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
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- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- PZ7.7 .M68 .F — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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