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The classic novel brought to life in full color! ' Cursed be the hands that formed you'! True to the original novel Declan Shalvey's naturally gothic artistic style is a perfect match for this epic tale Frankenstein is such a well known title yet the films strayed so far beyond the original novel that many people today don't realize how this classic horror tale deals with such timeless subjects as alienation empathy & understanding beyond appearance This is another great story beautifully crafted into a superb graphic novel ...
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This is the full story in quick modern English for a fast-paced read! True to the original novel (rather than the square-headed Boris Karloff image from the films!) Declan's naturally gothic artistic style is a perfect match for this epic tale Frankenstein is such a well known title yet the films strayed so far beyond the original novel that many people today don't realise how this classic horror tale deals with such timeless subjects as alienation empathy & understanding beyond appearance This is another great story beautifully crafted into a superb graphic novel ...
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The mysterious organization known as SHADE protects the world from its most dangerous supernatural threats But what happens when the threat comes from within SHADE itself? Frankestein & his Creature Commandoes must investigate suspected double-agents in their own field offices Their first stop is the Untropolis
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A modern day take on the classic tale by Mary Shelley Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles & told entirely from the perspective of the Monster After he is artificially created then left for dead by a husb&-&-wife team of eccentric scientists Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression & violence from the world around him This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity ...
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Boris Karloff stars as the screen&s most tragic & iconic monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made Dr Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) dares to tamper with the essential nature of life & death by creating a monster (Karloff) out of lifeless human body parts Director James Whale&s adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel & Karloff&s compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity make Frankenstein a timeless masterpiece Actors Colin Clive Mae Clarke John Boles & Boris Karloff Director James Whale Certificate PGYear 1931 Languages English Subtitles English ...
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A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith ...
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Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled & engrossed readers for two centuries Written by Mary Shelley it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood & quicken the beatings of the heart& The tale is a superb blend of science fiction mystery & thriller Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature experiments with alchemy & science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity it turns on its maker & the novel darkens into tragedy The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose the grotesque surreal imagery & the multi-layered themes in the novel Although first published in 1818 Shelley&s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination & has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies television & stage adaptations ...
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A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits Mary Shelley&s Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the sublime beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the arctic circle This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Maurice Hindle Obsessed with the idea of creating life itself Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material with which to fashion a new being shocking his creation to life with electricity But this botched creature rejected by its creator & denied human companionship sets out to destroy Frankenstein & all that he holds dear Mary Shelley&s chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron&s villa on Lake Geneva It would become the world&s most famous work of Gothic horror & Frankenstein&s monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity Based on the third edition of 1831 this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story as well as her 1831 introduction & Percy Shelley&s preface to the first edition This revised edition

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as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 & 1831 together with &A Fragment& by Lord Byron & Dr John Polidori&s & The Vampyre A Tale& Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of the author & political philosopher William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman In 1814 she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley whom she married when his first wife died in 1816 She is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein but she wrote several other works including Valperga & The Last Man If you liked Frankenstein you might enjoy Bram Stoker&s Dracula also available in Penguin Classics

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Frankenstein And The Birth Of Science

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was conceived against the backdrop of rapid change in the scientific world Frankenstein and The Birth of Science offers an engrossing insight into the world of science in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of the seminal science fiction novel Illustrated with line drawings and colour plates it reveals how the monster was conceived suggests the real-life basis for Victor Frankenstein and describes in vivid detail the experiments that might have led to the Creature's birth It also looks at incarnations of the monster since the book was published and modern interpretations of the "mad scientist" as well as looking ahead to permanent bionic limbs implants and other wonders Frankenstein and the Birth of Science looks back at
science's progress and forward to its potential
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was conceived against the backdrop of rapid change in the scientific world Frankenstein & The Birth of Science offers an engrossing insight into the world of science in late-eighteenth & early-nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of the seminal science fiction novel Illustrated with line drawings & colour plates it reveals how the monster was conceived suggests the real-life basis for Victor Frankenstein & describes in vivid detail the experiments that might have led to the Creature's birth It also looks at incarnations of the monster since the book was published & modern interpretations of the "mad scientist" as well as looking ahead to permanent bionic limbs implants & other wonders Frankenstein & the Birth of Science looks back at science's progress & forward to its potential

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