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1) Frankenstein
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Filipino
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Embark on an epic journey with one of literature's most profound creations!
Our Original Editions for 'Frankenstein' are meticulously structured to maintain the novel's original language as crafted by Mary Shelley, while incorporating passage markers that harmonize content across our editions. These markers act as a conduit, linking students with the Adaptive Versions, available in both print and digital formats, to unravel the depths of Shelley's...
2) Frankenstein
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Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores the terror of what happens when humanity plays God. Shattered by grief, the unstable Victor Frankenstein conducts a bizarre experiment, using electricity to galvanize inanimate matter and create an enormous man-like monster. Terrified by his own actions, Victor abandons his creation to the wilderness. Years later, the intelligent albeit hideous Creature finds his creator and poignantly...
3) Frankenstein
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"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley stands as a seminal work in Gothic literature, a narrative that delves into the dark recesses of human ambition, morality, and the consequences of playing god. Shelley's masterpiece, born from a stormy night's challenge among literary luminaries, weaves a haunting and tragic tale that reverberates with both philosophical depth and emotional intensity.
The story unfolds through the narrative of Captain Robert Walton,...
4) Frankenstein
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Español
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"La figura de Frankenstein ha pasado a la historia como sinónimo de terror y maldad. Formando parte de un mito que ha quedado instalado en nuestras mentes, influenciadas por las adaptaciones al cine y las manipulaciones que ha sufrido como representación del monstruo por excelencia. Sin embargo, la criatura creada por la escritora Mary Shelley tiene muchos rasgos humanos en los que todos nos podemos ver reflejados. Quizá por eso despierta nuestros...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the most famous of all science fiction stories whose influence is immeasurable is now seen in all its horror and tragedy. Told from the monster's point of view using the original text, witness the innocent creature brought to life and abandoned by its creator where all it finds is hate and fear. Vowing vengeance, it will not stop at nothing until everything Frankenstein holds dear is destroyed.
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Presenting a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you may not have seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies in written literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find acceptance in...
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Safely tucked away inside the hollow earth where humanity survived after Ragna Rok, precocious young Lilja receives visions of a new darkness taking root on the surface.
Defying her elders, Lilja awakens the timeless oracle-once known as Frankenstein-to investigate the warnings and, perhaps, even explore the new world above.
Frankenstein: New World, from Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Christopher Golden, artist Peter Bergting, and colorist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Halloween and Christmas collide in Ludworst Bemonster's unique send-up of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Little monsters everywhere will be screaming with laughter in Frankenstein's Fright Before Christmas!
'Twas the night before Christmas and poor Miss Devel
Was hassled and harried and not feeling well...
Off in the distance she heard such a clatter
She sprang from her slab to see what was the matter.
Off down the stairs she flew like...
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"A Tale from the Ice" - First issue of a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you have not seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies of literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find...
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"Hunted" - Second issue of a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you have not seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies of literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find acceptance...
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Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley's Frankenstein...
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Mit Frankenstein hat Mary Shelley 1818 eine mythische Gestalt erschaffen, die im Lauf des 20. Jahrhunderts durch teilweise sehr freie Verfilmungen eine ungeheure Popularität erlangt hat. Während der Name nun für alle möglichen Arten von Monstern steht, erzählt Shelley die phantastische Geschichte des Victor Frankenstein, der – an der Universität Ingolstadt – ein künstliches Wesen erschafft, das er nicht beherrschen kann. Das Monster sehnt...
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On a remote jungle island, a scientist toys with cryogenics and brain transplants Horseshoe Island lies just a few miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico-impossibly far from the laws of the United States. Here, a doctor named Hobbes has built his labs to perform experiments on bodies cryogenically frozen for two decades or longer. He plans to heal those whom the medicine of the past was helpless to save, and his experiments may hold the key...
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Français
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Cet ouvrage s'intéresse aux adaptations du roman de Mary Shelley, qui est sans doute l'œuvre ayant subi le plus de transformations dans l'histoire. Cinéma, théâtre, littérature, bande dessinée, jeu vidéo, musique et art visuel ne cessent d'en proposer des versions différentes. Comment expliquer ce succès, jamais démenti ?
Sans équivalent dans la francophonie, avec ses analyses étoffées très variées qui touchent plusieurs formes génériques,...
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Suburban Megatown doesn't seem like the ideal location for a bunch of kids to make a horror movie. But Anne and her friends luck into a deal with Augusta Herringbone and begin filming Dracula Marries Frankenstein! at Augusta's creepy castle-like home. Unfortunately Augusta flips her homophobic lid and then a fire destroys the whole film set. Out of the ashes come forgiveness and understanding, a finished film, an underwater dream fulfilled, and a...
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
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Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements - and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge.
Manga Classics® presents a frightening new manga...
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Launching a new graphic novel series for young middle-grade readers! Shelley Frankenstein loves to create scary monsters, but for some reason they always turn out cute...until this time. Shelley Frankenstein is a little girl with a rather infamous family heritage! She loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers....
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Tarzan. Odysseus. Zorro. Your favorite characters come back to life in new and exciting escapades in this must-have anthology.
In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the...
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The celebrated Scottish poet brings together nearly 20 years of work in this anthology- "a rare thing: a book of poems which sparkles" (Scotsman, UK).
Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. She gained worldwide acclaim as the Scots Makar-or Scotland's National Poet-from 2011 to 2016, and before that served for six years as Poet Laureate of Glasgow.
Dreaming Frankenstein...