Mary Shelley
1) Frankenstein
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English
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A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.
2) The last man
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English
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The Last Man (1826) is a dystopian novel by Mary Shelley. Dedicated to the recently deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, The Last Man was controversial upon publication and was immediately suppressed by British authorities. Resurrected by dedicated critics and readers, the novel is now recognized as a pioneering work of science fiction and as the first work of dystopian literature to be published in English.
The ambitious and semi-autobiographical...
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English
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Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. Victor is immediately horrified by his ambitious creation, and flees his apartment in remorse. The newborn monster disappears from Frankenstein's laboratory and enters the world as an outcast, struggling with his own identity. What follows is a gripping tale...
4) Frankenstein
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Portuguese
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Esta adaptação do romance Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, para o formato de audiolivro é marcada pela densidade do áudio. A trilha sonora, composta por uma variada gama de sons e temas remixados, acompanha a ambientação do texto com passagens súbitas de climas de romance e leveza para situações de suspense, terror e medo. No papel da Criatura, o dublador Guilherme Lopes, que já emprestou sua voz a personagens inesquecíveis, como o Barbárvore,
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
2nd ed.
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xviii, 524 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
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English
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This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the...
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Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
2nd ed.
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x, 470 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1831 text of Mary Shelley's English Romantic novel along with critical essays that read Frankenstein from five contemporary critical perspectives. A sixth essay by Fred Botting demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined." "Each critical essay is accompanied by an introduction to the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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lxi, 261 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science, topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
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First edition.
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xxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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English
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"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
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Livre de poche volume 3147
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Librairie générale française
Pub. Date
1997, ©1978
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255 pages ; 18 cm
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Français
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
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xii, 339 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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[In this text], Contemporary perspective is provided in two supporting sections. "Contexts" includes related writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori. "Nineteenth-Century Responses" gathers six reactions to Frankenstein's publication from the years 1818 to 1886, including those by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Hugh Reginald Haweis. "Criticism" is a collection of twelve seminal essays that provide a variety of...
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"An audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix,...
20) Frankenslime
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Victoria and her assistant, her dog Igor, set out to make amazing slime, but one night their creation unexpectedly comes to life.
