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 Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 1394 mentions » Add other authors (150 possible) | Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | | Shelley, Mary | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | | Bloom, Harold | Afterword | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | | Brockway, Harry | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Casaletto, Tom | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Couturiau, Paul | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Deaver, Jeffery | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Guidall, George | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Hindle, Maurice | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Hunter, J. Paul | Editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Johnson, Diane | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Karbiener, Karen | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Lehtonen, Paavo | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Miller, Walter James | Foreword | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Monzó, Quim | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Moser, Barry | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Munch, Philippe | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Polakovics, Friedrich | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Ruiz, Aristedes | Cover artist | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Seymour, Miranda | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Vance, Simon | Narrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Ward, Lynd | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | | Wrightson, Bernie | Illustrator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
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TO
WILLIAM GODWIN
Author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, &c.
THESE VOLUMES
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To Mrs Saville, England. St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. - preface by P.B. Shelley Mary Shelley: Though her life was fraught with personal tragedy, Mary Shelley was destined for literary greatness. (Barnes and Noble Edition) Author's Introduction: The publishers of the Standard Novels, in selecting Frankenstein for one of their series, expressed a wish that I should furnish them with some account of the origin on the story. (Author's Introduction to the Standard Novels Edition (1831)) | |
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“ I had admired the perfect form of my cottagers—their grace, beauty, and delicate complexions: but how was I terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool . . . and when I was convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.” "I will be with you on your wedding night!" It was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life! "I have lately been so engaged in one occupation that I have not allowed myself sufficient rest. But I hope that all those employments are now at an end, and that I am at length free." I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me. "Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone?" | |
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This is the main work for Frankenstein. It should not be combined with any abridgement or adaptation. | |
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Frankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind.
About the author:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London in 1797, the daughter of well-known intellectuals. She married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and spent much of her adulthood in continental Europe, surrounded by her friends in the English Romantic Movement. Her tumultuous life included the loss of three children in infancy and her husband’s death by drowning in 1822. Nevertheless, her contributions to English literature continue to fascinate and inspire readers and artists alike.
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0141439475, Paperback)
Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image … but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. (retrieved from Amazon Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:47:18 -0400) (see all 7 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature. » see all 57 descriptions |
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