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1. weneedtotalkaboutbooks.com › 2024/03/26Frankenstein by Mary Shelley [A Review] - We Need to Talk ...

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   Mar 26, 2024 · Frankenstein is a novel that has never left the popular imagination since it was first published in 1818 and it probably never will. A dark gothic fantasy, an early science fiction, or a ‘precursor to the existential thriller’; its arresting power has captured every generation.

2. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears - BBC

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   Jun 13, 2018 · Frankenstein is simultaneously the first science-fiction novel, a Gothic horror, a tragic romance and a parable all sewn into one towering body. Its two central tragedies – one of overreaching...

3. www.scatteredbooks.com › book-reviews › frankensteinReview and Synopsis of Mary Shelley's Classic, "Frankenstein"

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   Nov 28, 2023 · “Lisa Frankenstein” is an upcoming American horror comedy film, slated for release on February 9, 2024. The movie, written by Diablo Cody and marking Zelda Williams’ feature-length directorial debut, offers a unique twist on the classic Frankenstein story.

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5. www.goodreads.com › book › showFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Goodreads

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   Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

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6. www.commonsensemedia.org › book-reviews › frankensteinFrankenstein Book Review - Common Sense Media

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   Sep 9, 2011 · Rescued from an ice floe near the North Pole, a dying Victor Frankenstein tells a British explorer a remarkable tale of his blighted life: After an idyllic childhood as the eldest son of a wealthy Swiss family, he's sent to Ingolstadt to pursue his university studies, where his brilliance and thirst for knowledge soon become apparent.

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7. lithub.com › read-percy-shelleys-review-of-maryRead Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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   Oct 30, 2020 · Read Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As the story goes, eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein one dreary summer night in 1816 while she and the poet Percy Shelley (her then lover, later husband), were vacationing in the Swiss Alps with Lord Byron, who suggested that they pass the time ...

8. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/02/12The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein” | The New Yorker

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   Feb 5, 2018 · “Frankenstein” is four stories in one: an allegory, a fable, an epistolary novel, and an autobiography, a chaos of literary fertility that left its very young author at pains to explain her ...