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IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS (ANNOTATED EDITION) - BY MARY SHELLEY
"Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley follows the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who becomes obsessed with creating life. He successfully animates a creature from assembled body parts, but horrified by his creation, he abandons it. The creature, intelligent and sensitive, seeks acceptance but faces rejection and isolation. This leads him...
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English
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Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends--a mother and daughter--discovering each other...and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in...
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English
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We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous...
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Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To tell a spooky campfire story, Xavier, Yadina, and Brad head to the Secret Museum to get some help from Mary Shelley, in this story based on the Ordinary People Change the World series.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition...
8) Mary Shelley
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English
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The real-life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary...
9) Mary Shelley
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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
11) Frankenstein
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the history and pop culture that developed over Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries including several plays, films, and television adaptations of the famous monster.
12) Mary Shelley
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
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Language
English
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"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a dinosaur fossil hunter is blackmailed by kidnappers who need her to fake a validation in return of her beloved pooch, Ada and Mary are given three days to find the offenders and save the scientist's reputation.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Spotting a ghostly girl in the park who resembles the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency's new client, Lady Ada and Mary discover links between the girl and a case involving a hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a devious servant.
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