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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
- an exact copy of Metropolis that floats upside down in the 4th Cloud above Superman's hometown Will Frank & company be able to stop the threat to SHADE before the organization gets capsized from the inside? Critically acclaimed writer Jeff Lemire (Animal Man) & Matt Kindt bring you the second volume of Frankenstein Agent of SHADE one of the breakout series from DC Comics
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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 ...

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 ...

A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith ...

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 ...

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

Includes:: 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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The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley& Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness&A twisted upside-down creation myth Mary Shelley&s chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science & the horror within us all It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead
- but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder & destruction Written after a nightmare when its author was only eighteen Frankenstein gave birth to the modern science fiction novel The Penguin English Library
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This timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man & monster In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long & tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship scientific hubris & horror ...