Posts Tagged ‘Frankenstein’
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
Posted by admin in Kindle Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:50 5 Comments
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Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 17 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley’s name appears on the revised third edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average … More >>
Ignatius Critical Editions: Frankenstein
Posted by admin in Kindle Thursday, 17 June 2010 03:48 5 Comments
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most influential and controversial novels of the nineteenth century; it is also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. It has been vivisected critically by latter-day Victor Frankensteins who have transformed the meanings emergent from the novel into monsters of post-modern misconception. Meanwhile Franken-feminists have turned the novel into a monster of misanthropy. Seldom has a work of fiction suffered so scand… More >>
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Posted by admin in Kindle Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:47 5 Comments
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Frankenstein’s creation – a hideous figure with black lips and watery eyes – though human in his heart and mind, strikes fear and loathing into those who look on him. Despising his creator for bringing him into a hostile world, he vows to take his revenge.Amazon.com Review
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, th… More >>
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Posted by admin in Kindle Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:50 5 Comments
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From Content: “You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills m… More >>
Frankenstein
Posted by admin in Kindle Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:54 5 Comments
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Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyAmazon.com Review
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’… More >>