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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 3:: Frankenstein (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 3:: Frankenstein (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

by Mary Shelley (Author), Mary Shelley (Author), Patrick Nobes (Author), Mary Shelley (Author)

  • New

    Paperback 2007

    $17.08

  • New

    Paperback 2007

    $17.08
Synopsis

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.

David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

$17.08

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5 in stock

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 08 Nov 2007
ISBN 10: 0194791165
ISBN 13: 9780194791168
Book Overview: Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life.

Media Reviews
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century Gothicism. While stay-ing in the Swiss Alps in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary, then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity. Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the corrupting influence of science. Packed with allusions and literary references, it is also one of the best thrillers ever written. Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818. The prototype of the science fiction novel, it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations but retains its original power.
This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by Wendy Steiner, the chair of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Scandal of Pleasure.

Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797 in London. She eloped to France with Shelley, whom she married in 1816. After Frankenstein, she wrote several novels, including Valperga and Falkner, and edited editions of the poetry of Shelley, who had died in 1822. Mary Shelley died in London in 1851.

Author Bio
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797 in London, the daughter of William Godwin--a radical philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft--a renowned feminist and the author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She eloped to France with Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his first wife. She began work on Frankenstein in 1816 in Switzerland, while they were staying with Lord Byron, and it was published in 1818 to immediate acclaim. She died in London in 1851.