Mary Shelley
1) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Victor Frankenstein leads an idyllic life in Switzerland with his family and friends until a thirst for knowledge sends him off in search of something that no human being has yet attained--the ability to create life. Victor's success soon proves that, through the work of his own hands, he and his family are destined to live a life of pain and suffering.
2) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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"Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences." "Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Did Victor Frankenstein really create a monster? What do you call a living being who was put together from animal and human pieces - and infused with the spark of life? Do you call him human or non-human? What makes Victor Frankenstein more human than his creation? Frankenstein was first published in 1818 when Mary Shelley was twenty years old. Two hundred years later, the themes of humanity and scientific creation remain relevant for our modern...
7) Frankenstein
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Pub. Date
c1993
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Obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein creates a being by reanimating the dead, but when it opens its eyes he flees, leaving behind a being that craves affection and acceptance, but is reviled instead. The creature, vowing revenge, pursues Victor to the ends of the earth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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The young scientist Victor Frankenstein has created something amazing and horrible at the same time--a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a monster! Frankenstein's creation quickly discovers that his hideous appearance frightens away any companions. Now Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence.
This book, in graphic novel format, retells the story...
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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A simplified, abridged version of the classic about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Accompanied by a short biography of Mary Shelley and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of tolerance.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley's early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author's revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein's indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory,...
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Pub. Date
1978
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FRANKENSTEIN The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication over 150 years ago. A novel of tense and steadily mounting horror, it offers a searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a lonely, tortured monster brought to life in an alien world. DRACUIAThis masterpiece of Gothic horror...
18) The last man
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Pub. Date
c1965
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The novel ends in 2100, "the last year of the world," when a devastating plague has wiped out humanity except for one man.