Mary Shelley
1) Frankenstein
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Español
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- Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral."¡Despiadado creador! Me has dado sentimientos y pasiones, pero me has abandonado al desprecio y al asco de la humanidad."La historia del joven científico Victor Frankenstein y su "demoníaca criatura" propicia un extraordinario relato de terror y aborda temas fundamentales de la naturaleza humana vigentes en la sociedad actual. El monstruo, compuesto por trozos de cadáveres cosidos, ante el profundo...
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English
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley’s amendments and contributions.
For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent...
For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent...
4) Frankenstein
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret to giving life to inanimate matter
To test his theories, he collects bones from the tombs to construct a "human" being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens all who see it. Lonely and miserable, it comes to hate its creator. This tale of terror has been a world favorite since it was first published in 1818. Mary Shelley's original
...5) Frankenstein
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Lexile measure
1170L
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English
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Presents the 1818 text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator; and includes explanatory annotations, a selection of related writings, and a collection of critical essays.
8) The last man
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
2023 edition.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic post-apocalyptic tale of a futuristic world in the late 21st Century in the aftermath of a plague.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kid Classics: Frankenstein is a story that you can't put down: Scientist Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret to life and uses it to build a living, breathing eight-food-tall monster!"--
12) Frankenslime
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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Victoria and her assistant, her dog Igor, set out to make amazing slime, but one night their creation unexpectedly comes to life.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
lxxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"'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...
16) Lost in darkness
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Enchanting Regency-era gothic romance intertwined with inspiration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Travel writer Amelia Balfour's dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother. This could change everything, and it does. . .in the worst possible way. Surgeon Graham Lambert has suspicions about the doctor he's gone into practice with, but he can't stop him from operating...
17) Frogenstein
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lonely middle-schooler Angus Munch has one friend - a very old frog named Frank, the science classroom pet. When Angus takes Frank home for the weekend, disaster strikes and Frank croaks! It will take all of Angus's science knowledge to bring his friend back to life - can he do it before school on Monday, or is Frank amphibian history?"
18) Frankenstein
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realizes that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
