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(Fictitious character) Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) Frankenstein, Victor Horror tales, English History and criticism Monsters Fiction Monsters in literature Science in literature Scientists in literature Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Fiction Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Juvenile literatureReef, Catherine
Summary: A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SHEHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HARJudge, Lita
Summary: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 JUDHand, Cynthia
Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANKeenan, Sheila
Summary: "Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! One of the most iconic monsters of all time comes to life in our What Is the Story Of? series. From his origins in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, through his many movie portrayals in the twentiethcentury, Frankenstein is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. His iconic look is a go-to Halloween costume for kids and adults...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 823 KEEMontillo, Roseanne.
Summary: Blends nineteenth-century science with literary creation to trace the origins of the classic horror story, exploring how Shelley and her contemporaries were intrigued by scientists who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willam Morrow 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 823 MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 MONSummary: Horror of Dracula (1958): "Christopher Lee as the centuries-old vampire Dracula and Peter Cushing as his implacable foe Van Helsing battle for the souls of Londoners in this retelling of Bram Stoker's novel."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR GREEaston, Marilyn
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE EASFulton, Lynn
Summary: On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINAdams, Jennifer
Summary: Introduces human anatomy using the monster from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2014
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE ADAHoobler, Dorothy.
Summary: "The Monsters tells the story of the real-life characters surrounding the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Drawing on private diaries, personal letters, and contemporary accounts, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a spectacular narrative of artistic creation and personal destruction. They reveal not just the true origins of two of the most famous monsters in popular culture, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 HOOLee, Mackenzi.
Summary: "When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LEEEekhout, Anne
Summary: "A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Gordon, Charlotte.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GORShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Summary: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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Summary: Get caught up in the two most famous scary stories of all time depicted in LEGO bricks! Creep your way through the shadowy sets of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula in this amazing brick adaptation. With one thousand color photographs, these stories and their monsters come alive in full plastic horror! Stare in awe as Dr. Frankenstein brings his brick monster to life in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRASeymour, Miranda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.7 SEYShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Publisher / Publication Date: ibooks 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHESampson, Fiona
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SAM,Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B SHELLEY SAMRedmond, Heather
Summary: "London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women's rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her-that of an assistant in her father's bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frankenstein: the doctor who created life! Was the famed character invented in the mind of novelist Mary Shelley, or was Dr. Frankenstein based in reality, as some argue? This episode of Ancient Mysteries explores Shelley’s possible influences. Had she learned of the 18th century German doctor who experimented on dead as well as live bodies; or was her inspiration the Britisher Andrew Crosse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010