Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Shelley, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743487583 ISBN 13: 9780743487580

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).

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A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy.

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· A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
· A chronology of the author’s life and work
· A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context
· An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
· Detailed explanatory notes
· Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
· Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
· A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience

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About this title

Review:

Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image ... but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.

Book Description:

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743487583
• ISBN 13: 9780743487580
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352