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« Il était déjà une heure du matin ; une pluie morne battait les vitres et ma chandelle presque consumée dispensait une lueur vacillante grâce à laquelle je vis s'ouvrir l'oeil jaune et terne de la créature : elle respirait avec peine et un mouvement convulsif agitait son corps. » ...
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The Original Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
- Knopf doubleday publishing group digital
- 12 Octobre 2011
- 9780307793775
Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novelyes'>#8212;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 ...
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Frankenstein based on the novel by Mary Shelley
Dear Nick
- Faber and faber digital
- 17 Février 2011
- 9780571277223
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Mary Shelley's own life was as dramatic as her fiction. Even had she not (at the age of 19) authored Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror fables in literature, she would be crucial to the study of Romanticism, as the daughter of two of the great radical thinkers of the day, William Godwin and Ma...
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EDGE - Classics Retold: Frankenstein
Shelley Mary
- Hachette children's book digital
- 14 Juillet 2011
- 9781445108193
Frankenstein is the terrifying story of a scientist who uses his powers to bring a dead body back to life and thus creates a monster. Little can the scientist imagine the consequences of his actions, as he and his creation quickly become drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse, which only one...
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What you create can destroy you. One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the artic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final sc...
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« Il était déjà une heure du matin ; une pluie morne battait les vitres et ma chandelle presque consumée dispensait une lueur vacillante grâce à laquelle je vis s'ouvrir l'oeil jaune et terne de la créature : elle respirait avec peine et un mouvement convulsif agitait son corps. » ...
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Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill treatment drives him to murder and revenge. This easy-to-read vers...
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"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, halfvital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insom...
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But my father, my beloved and most wretched father... Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him? With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, Mary Shelleys publisher--her father, known for his own subversive books--not only refused to publish Mathil...
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Mary and Maria, Matilda
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley Janet Todd
- Penguin books ltd digital
- 3 Décembre 1992
- 9780141905167
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, t...
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Frankenstein - The 'Uncensored' Original 1818 Edition
Mary Shelley
- E-artnow
- 21 Août 2013
- 9788074844607
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Frankenstein (The Original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition)
Mary Shelley
- E-artnow
- 19 Janvier 2013
- 9788087664964
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At the age of twenty, Mary Shelley secured her place in history by writing Frankenstein (1818), now acknowledged as one of the great literary classics. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley lived an unconventional life dogged by ...
