Frankenstein the manga
Manga adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale of a young man's obsession with creating life--and the horrors unleashed when he succeeds.
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| Format: | Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel |
| Language: | English |
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Richmond Hill :
Manga Classics, Inc,
[2020]
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| Series: | Manga classics.
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| Summary: | Manga adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale of a young man's obsession with creating life--and the horrors unleashed when he succeeds. |
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| Item Description: | Reads from right to left. |
| Physical Description: | 320 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| Audience: | 9 7-12 12+ |
| ISBN: | 9781947808164 1947808168 9781947808157 194780815X |
| Author Notes: | Shelley became her ideal, but their life together was a difficult one. Traumas plagued them: Shelley's wife and Mary's half-sister both committed suicide; Mary and Shelley wed shortly after he was widowed but social disapproval forced them from England; three of their children died in infancy or childhood; and while Shelley was an aristocrat and a genius, he was also moody and had little money. Mary conceived of her magnum opus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, when she was only nineteen when Lord Byron suggested they tell ghost stories at a house party. The resulting book took over two years to write and can be seen as the brilliant creation of a powerful but tormented mind. The story of Frankenstein has endured nearly two centuries and countless variations because of its timeless exploration of the tension between our quest for knowledge and our thirst for good. Shelley drowned when Mary was only 24, leaving her with an infant and debts. She died from a brain tumor on February 1, 1851 at the age of 54. (Bowker Author Biography) |
