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Mary Shelley, who whipped up the concept of a power-crazed mad scientist assembling an entire animate creature out of stolen dead body parts, is the very last person anyone would expect (or request) to writea children’s story. It’s similar to when Jhonen C. Vasquez, artist and author ...
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Frankenstein is the commonly used abbreviated title for the novel, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, by British author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It was first written as part of a ghost story contest among Shelley and her friends.
Mary Shelley: In 1812 at the age of 15, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to France. Following the suicide of Shelley's wife in 1816, Mary and Percy married and began a family overseas and, while on a vacation, wrote the novelFrankenstein: Or the Modern Prom...
In short, art expresses the essential qualities of a time and a place, and a study of it clearly offers us a deeper understanding than can be found in most history books. In history books, objective information about the political life of a country is presented; that is, facts about ...
the books don’t speak; my oil lamp bathes these pages in a light of peace, light of a chapel. The books don’t speak; of the poets, the meditators, the learned, the spirits drowse; and it is as if around me circled cautious death. ~ From “It is Night, in My Study” by Mi...
the camphor handker- chief to her mouth. Father hadn’t moved he still sat beside her holding her hand the bellowing hammering away like no place for it in silenceWhen I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slan...
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