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Original Essays | October 17, 2009

Jessica Maxwell: IMG God's Tea Party



My Catholic friend tilted her teacup like a fortune-teller. "You know," she said, "I think people who don't have God in their lives are like people... Continue »
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Frankenstein (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Mary Shelley

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The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. With the author's own 1831 introduction.

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At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the elements of horror and suspense.

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The story of Victor Frankenstein’s terrible creation and the havoc it caused. With the author’s own 1831 introduction.

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9780486282114
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Shelley
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Dover Publications
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New York :
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Literary
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Fiction
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Classics
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Novels and novellas
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Literature
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Children's 12-Up - Literature - Classics
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British and irish fiction (fictional works by
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Scientists
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Horror
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Horror fiction
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Monsters
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Horror tales
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Monsters -- Fiction.
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Frankenstein
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Horror - General
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Frankenstein (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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196 (1994)
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October 1994
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Paperback
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English
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176
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830x520x40 30
Age Level:
13-17

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