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  • I read this for a modern novel English class in College. This is actually a great story - much better (and very different!) from any movie rendition I have seen. There is a whole other side to the story of the "monster" and this is pretty much an essential read of classic fiction.

    

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  • Don't be put off by the Frankenstein of popular culture; this book is a thoughtful exploration of humanity, science, and society.

    

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  • Contains the version of the story unedited by Mary Shelley's husband.

    

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  • Narrative within a Narrative

  • Mary Shelley did a good job writing a narrative within a narrative - beginning with a letter (which is an interesting way to start a story in first person) - and continuing with the monster's perspective. Her writing brought me back in time. What amazed me also was the work that she and her husband, ... Continue

    Mary Shelley did a good job writing a narrative within a narrative - beginning with a letter (which is an interesting way to start a story in first person) - and continuing with the monster's perspective. Her writing brought me back in time. What amazed me also was the work that she and her husband, Percy Shelly, shared. Also, her references to Milton's "Paradise Lost" gave me an interest in looking at his work as well.

    

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  • Shelley's monster in this book is an excellent surprise to meet, as opposed to the bastardized version the villian portrayed in current pop culture. Her creation is worlds more terrifying than the glorified zombie we see lumbering around today.

    

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内容简介
This classic gothic novel was first conceived in a storytelling contest between Lord Byron ,Percy Bysshe Shelley ,and eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley,who imagined what might happen if a scientist created life without considering the consequences .By stitching together body parts from various corpses, Victor Frankenstein assembles a “monster”that he brings to life with electricity.The result is so horrific that he flees his home in terror,abandoning the monster to survive on its own in an uncaring and hostile world.
As Society enters the twenty-first century,with opportunities for human cloning within our reach,the questions raised by this time-less novel seem more pertinent than ever:What are the consequences of creating artifi-cial life?What are scientists' responsibilities toward their work?And what happens if they go too far?In Frankenstein,Mary Shelley offers harrowing answers to these questions-and a chilling tale that has endured for more than a century.
作者简介：
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley(1797-1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the dangher of two radical English thinkers-philosopher Willian Godwin and the feminist educator Mary Wollstonecraft.Her mother died a few days after giving birth.
Mary received a challenging education usually reserved for men at that time.At the age of sixteen,she ran away to the Continent with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,who was already married.soon after learning of his wife's subsequent suicide,Mary and Percy were married in 1815.
Mary Shelley's masterpiece,Frankenstein,or The Modern Prometheus,was published in 1881,when she was twenty-one.Although she continued to write for many years,Shelley never repeated the tremendous success of this first novel.She died in 1851.

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