Showing results for "Mary Shelley" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris and horror.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

NOW A NETFLIX FILM FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING VISIONARY GUILLERMO DEL TORO NOMINATED FOR NINE ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of...

At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering "the cause of generation and life" and "bestowing animation upon lifeless matter", Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts. However, upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness.

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil.

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot-tall creature and succeeds in animating him, but, horrified by his visage, perceives his creation to be a monster and frightens him away. The monster, wandering in search of human companionship, is spurned and repulsed by all he approaches and learns to hate and to kill.

Frankenstein, first published in 1818, is widely recognised as being one of the first 'science fiction' novels. Starring Michael Maloney as Frankenstein and John Wood as the Creature, this spine-tingling dramatisation perfectly conveys the book's pervasive sense of unease and dread. Victor...

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Widely considered one of the founding works of science fiction and a masterpiece of Gothic literature, Frankenstein is an exploration of scientific responsibility, human nature, and what we owe to those we bring into existence. This edition presents the original 1818 text—the rawest and most philosophically powerful version of Mary Shelley's groundbreaking novel, written when she was just 18 years old. Enhanced with comprehensive historical context, this edition invites listeners to experience Shelley's vision as it was meant to be heard.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a groundbreaking novel by British author Mary Shelley, penned when she was just 18 years old. First published anonymously in London in 1818, this audiobook is based on that original text. Shelleys name finally graced the revised third edition released in 1831. The title refers to Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who discovers the secret to creating life and brings to existence a powerful being resembling a man, yet larger and fearsome. In popular culture, the Creature is often mistakenly called Frankenstein, a confusion that has persisted since the ...

Un clásico gótico de ciencia ficción de Mary Shelley.

He’s one of America’s most brilliant neuroscientists. He’s also Black and dying of cancer. But he has a plan—a brain transfer. He’ll put his gifted mind into the body of Sammy Sturgeon, a White high school football star who was on the rise until a touchdown collision left him brain-dead. He convinces his co-conspirator, Dr. Dino Battaglia, to help him with the forbidden procedure. Douglass wakes up in Sammy’s White, athletic body, with his new family and legions of fans weeping at his miraculous recovery.

Frankenstein, écrit par Mary Shelley et publié en 1818, et traduit par Jules Saladin dès 1821, est un roman gothique qui raconte l’histoire de Victor Frankenstein, un scientifique ambitieux qui crée un être vivant à partir de morceaux de cadavres. Son expérience tourne au drame lorsqu'il rejette la créature, la laissant seule et perdue. L’histoire explore des thèmes profonds tels que la quête du savoir, les conséquences de l'ambition démesurée, la solitude, et la responsabilité morale.

The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that was first published in 1826. The book describes a future Earth at the time of the late 21st century, ravaged by an unknown pandemic that quickly sweeps across the world.

Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and his creation, the daemon. Shelley called the scientist a "pale student of unhallowed arts" and his creation a "hideous phantasm of a man." This story is not only delightfully frightful, but arguably represents one of the clearest criticisms of science during a time when, like the daemon, it was leaving its own infancy and, like Dr. Frankenstein, testing its ethical boundaries. As ...

Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. Titles include Frankenstein (1994), The Time Machine (2009), The Lost World (1975), R.U.R. (1989) and Solaris (2007). Accompanying this collection is a bonus PDF file featuring extensive sleeve notes by Andrew Pixley.

Frankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame and friendship. The ship becomes trapped in ice, and, one day, the crew sees a dog sled in the distance, on which there is the figure of a giant man. Hours later, the crew finds a frozen and emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, in desperate need of sustenance.

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Tra i ghiacci dell'Artico l'esploratore Robert Walton trova un uomo stremato e lo accoglie sulla sua nave. È Victor Frankenstein, che gli racconta la sua terribile storia. Giovane e brillante scienziato, Frankenstein è riuscito a infondere la vita in una mostruosa creatura da lui stesso assemblata con pezzi di cadavere. Ma il successo ha avuto un prezzo, e tremendo.