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Frankenstein (with an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott) Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
- Publication date3 July 2015
- Grade level1 - 3
- File size2367 KB
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"A masterpiece" (Phillip Pullman)
"Frankenstein launched an entire genre of dystopian fiction, and a legacy of horror at the consequences of unbridled experimentation" (Daily Telegraph)
"The most famous of all horror stories still packs a punch" (Daily Mail)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797 in London, England. She was the daughter of two eighteenth-century intellectual giants: political philosopher William Godwin and famed feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley was also married to the famed poet Percy Byshe Shelley, for who she spent the majority of her life trying to publish his work. Her magnum opus, Frankenstein, was conceived on a rainy night at Lake Geneva after a waking dream that she had a few nights after Lord Byron had proposed that they each write a ghost story. Suffering from a possible brain tumor, Shelley passed away in 1851.
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- ASIN : B010WCDQU6
- Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing (3 July 2015)
- Language : English
- File size : 2367 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 111 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1545404844
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- Illustrated with book-end doodles about reading
- Translations of best translators of history
- Beautifully laid out reader-friendly format
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Godwin's mother died when Mary was eleven days old; afterwards, Mary and her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay, were reared by their father. When Mary was four, Godwin married his neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont. Godwin provided his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his liberal political theories. In 1814, Mary Godwin began a romantic relationship with one of her father’s political followers, the married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together with Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, they left for France and travelled through Europe; upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816 after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet.
In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, probably caused by the brain tumour that was to kill her at the age of 53.
Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley’s achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826), and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin.
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The style is eloquent, the prose vibrant.
But it is difficult to appreciate the emotions of a protagonist that you have no sympathy for.
And a modern publisher would have probably halved the manuscript.
Yet It seems there is density of ideas expressed here that will need plenty of review and analysis, and thankfully they are unencumbered by needless references to prior works.
The movie Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) is much closer to the original story that all the previous movies, but like most movies it pails in comparison to the book.
Unlike some of the other classics like Shakespeare, it can be read by anyone, you do not need a degree in literature to enjoy it.
Highly recommended
Worth the effort for those who (like myself) hadn't read it and took the Hollywood spoon-feeding as gospel. the actual story reads a lot like all the scenes/dialogue that might have ended up on the cutting room floor. Too reflective, maybe too philosophical and wordy for Hollywood to capture verbatim.
It's an emotional/psychological narrative rather than a graphic gore-fest. Much detail is left up to the reader's imagination; which may be why it could be a challenge for the average 21st Century reader.
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If you think that because you have watched the movie adaptations you can skip this book, then you don’t know what you are missing.
The movie obscured Shelley’s intentions.
This is not a horror book.
It’s a drama at its finest.
The writing is fascinating!
And if you add the audiobook narrated by Dan Stevens you will be transported to the era and be totally involved in the emotional rollercoaster.
The writing is complex and vivid and expresses the anguish of both monster and creator.
I thought the story was exceptionally well told and the writing definitely brought it to life.
What I enjoyed the most is that we have the monster’s perspective.
What an incredible imagination!
The author was 18 years old and this book was written in 1818, so take that into consideration.
What a great read!
Victor, in the quest for knowledge(or dangerous obsession for ambition) created a monster,but was it really a monster??
The story showcased the yearning for companionship, the desire for acceptance and belonging and what does a little kindness can't fix, only if each one could get an equal share of it!
The sync between character's emotions and the changing season is so good and poignant, spring for the happy cheery vibe and winters, quite the opposite.
The switch in narrations added an exquisite touch to the story, making it even more captivating.
What makes Frankenstein a must-read book is how the author beautifully expresses emotions with just a few words.
Wie viele andere kenne ich hunderte Iterationen dieser Geschichte in anderen Serien und Filmen, aber ich muss sagen, das Original war sehr anders, als ich erwartet habe.
Zusätzlich hat es mich dazu motiviert mich mit Mary Shelley und ihrem sehr spannendem Leben zu beschäftigen.