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Mary Shelley : Frankenstein
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Author: Mary Shelley
Title: Frankenstein
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Date: 2010-08-09
ISBN: 1936041111
Publisher: Simon & Brown
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Size: 8.86 x 0.47 x 5.91 inches
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Previous givers: 1 Julie06 (Spain)
Previous moochers: 1 Soraya Arán Zafra (Spain)
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This best selling classic is about a young Swiss student who uncovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates a monster that vows revenge on his creator after being rejected from society.


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, 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.

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