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    Frankenstein (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics
    Frankenstein (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics
    Frankenstein (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics
    Audiobook49 minutes

    Frankenstein (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics

    Written by Mary Shelley

    Narrated by Saddleback Educational Publishing

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    About this audiobook

    When Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist, tries to create life in his laboratory, the result is an ugly monster. Instantly feared by all who see him, the hated monster is driven into the countryside. Never given a chance at friendship or human companionship, the monster plots a terrible revenge!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaddleback Educational Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2006
    ISBN9781612474410
    Frankenstein (A Graphic Novel Audio): Illustrated Classics
    Author

    Mary Shelley

    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in 1797, the daughter of two of the leading radical writers of the age. Her mother died just days after her birth and she was educated at home by her father and encouraged in literary pursuits. She eloped with and subsequently married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but their life together was full of hardship. The couple were ruined by disapproving parents and Mary lost three of her four children. Although its subject matter was extremely dark, her first novel Frankenstein (1818) was an instant sensation. Subsequent works such as Mathilda (1819), Valperga (1823) and The Last Man (1826) were less successful but are now finally receiving the critical acclaim that they deserve.

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    • 5/5
      total classic book, one of the best books i have ever read and one of my favourite. when i read this i got goosebumps and shivers down my spine it terrified me but i could not put it down. brilliant book. must read for any horror lover.
    • 3/5
      I thought I knew quite a bit about this story, but it wasn't really what I expected after all (which was a pleasant surprise). Overall, I thought the book was okay, but it was hard to keep moving forward at times. Also, sometimes it seems like main events are barely even mentioned, while descriptions of 'less important' things and details go on forever.Glad I read it once, but probably won't re-read.
    • 2/5
      I really didn't like this one. Maybe it's because of all the hype about it - surely after that anything would be a letdown. The reason I didn't like it was this: I felt that the themes of the novel were very interesting (knowledge, humanity, etc.) but I felt the execution was poor. Some key events in the novel depended on far too convenient plot devices (The monster needs to learn about humankind and morality! Oh, look, there's a random suitcase of philosophy texts lying in the woods! How convenient!) and because of that for me the plausibility of it suffered. And I KNOW it's meant to be a fantastic as opposed to realistic story, but I feel that with really, really good writing an author can make readers believe in things that are fantastic and implausible - and the writing in this book definitely didn't do that. Giving it two stars only because it's remained popular this long, so I suppose there must be something going for it.
    • 3/5
      My first thought is that this book, with such flagrant imagery to the surrounding world, houses no evil in the first letters preceding the story. I would of never have guessed the ending and I felt much more empathetic to the monster than I ever thought could. Victor Frankenstein unknowingly created a grief-stricken destiny for his time.
    • 5/5
      Quite different from the classic movie... The monster is actually fairly articulate and, despite his horrible deeds, a tragic figure (IMO more so than Dr. Frankenstein).
    • 1/5
      Horrendous writing, fascinating story. Reading Frankenstein is like being forced to sit through a lecture after being deprived of sleep for three days. The entire thing, first page to last is about feelings... It's about what a person thinks. The story is completely secondary. Not worth the read.
    • 3/5
      Although I normally love classics, I found this one hard to get into. Victor spends a lot of time whining about how no human has been been half as miserable as he is/was, but not a lot of time actually doing anything about it. This got especially irritating to me when it became clear that more horrible things were just around the corner, and he let them happen because he was too self-involved to stop or foresee them. However, near the end he does finally get that needed motivation, and there are some legitimately creepy scenes, although this section doesn't last very long compared to the whining parts. But I'm glad I read it and know the story now--which is completely different than I expected!
    • 4/5
      i did get bored with the story a little bit, but i was amazed how not one paragraph in the whole book doesen't just jump out and grab you. it is a great read from beginning to end, if you enjoy the style
    • 5/5
      For a novel that is almost 200 years old, Frankenstein holds up remarkably well. There's no need to summarize the plot; even those who haven't read the book are familiar with the guilt-plagued scientist Frankenstein and his oversized, ugly, yet sensitive and misunderstood, creation. I thought the novel would be scary, but the overall tone is more melancholy than frightening. I'm glad I finally read it.
    • 1/5
      “Frankenstein” is a book that is extremely hard to follow and is a boring read. Victor Frankenstein’s creation is supposed to be horrifying, but what is really horrifying is this book. Victor is an overdramatic man that seems to fall ill every time a problem comes along. This book constantly left me depressed and bored out of my mind. The plot is all over the place and makes the monster seem like a convicted killer rather than a classic villain. The only people I recommend this book to are unhappy, stiff people that do not enjoy fun. I gave the book a half of a star because Mary Shelly went through the effort to write it.
    • 4/5
      Together with Dracula (and perhaps a few others?) here's a classic few people think they need to read. We all know the big green lug with the bolts in his neck, so what's to learn from reading the novel? Plenty, as it turns out. The novel is missing many of the elements you've seen at the cinema or on television, versions which created their own set of tropes. On the whole it's much more conventional, basic conceit aside. Of the greatest surprise was the fact this monster may be the best-spoken ever created.I was pleasantly surprised by the framing story. I didn't find the writing to be especially good at first, but later there were large sections of dialogue that I thought were excellent. Ultimately it's the story that has made this a classic. The reader is thrust into Victor Frankenstein's shoes. It made me live through the fevered creation of a monster, then knowing the acts it committed but feeling powerless to reveal the knowledge as this tragedy plays out with domino effect. The novel's horror element stems not from gruesome scenes or depictions of the monster, but from the chain of events that arise from Frankenstein's heedless pursuit. A particularly effective scene comes when Frankenstein and his monster first confront one another in their pain and grief, each decrying and blaming the other for their mutual course of destruction.I've two editions of the novel (1818/1831) and played "spot the differences". The first three chapters were condensed into two, and throughout the novel Shelley added numerous flora to her descriptive passages. The most significant differences come when Victor travels to the area of the glacier alone, or in the company of his father and Elizabeth. The monster plants evidence on Justine in her sleep, or is sneaky enough to drop it in her pocket while she is awake. The endings of both versions are entirely the same. The moral about science didn't speak to me, but I viewed the novel as a more general metaphor for addiction: the wild pursuit of a particular regardless of danger or cost, and the eventual toll it takes on self and family. Taken either way, the novel's cautionary note applies just as well to today's society as it did two hundred years ago.
    • 4/5
      It is morally outstanding, but the book does not give your heart a race for the next page; but it moves you to tears.
    • 5/5
      This classic by Mary Shelley was one of my favorites as a teenager. After re-reading it, I still feel the same. This book is the story of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster that he created. Immediately repulsed, Dr. Frankenstein rejects the monster, leaving it to roam Europe on its own. After hiding near a family, the monster learns how to talk and communicate and realizes that he is missing companionship. When Dr. Frankenstein refuses to create a companion for him, the monster begins killing his family. Overall, this is a book well worth reading.
    • 5/5
      In my reading of this book, I see Viktor Frankenstein as a classic example of an unreliable narrator, and just as Humbert Humbert is not the identical voice of Nabokov in "Lolita", Mary Shelley did not intend Frankenstein to be her "voice." Many of my students complaints about "Frankenstein" pointed to the narrow self-righteousness of the doctor. Ya think so? (Another example: in "Heart of Darkness," many people identify Marlow completely with Conrad. Narrative complexity is something that a lot of readers don't easily grasp - or appreciate.) I've noticed that a lot of people today want their first person narrators to be fine, upstanding and completely sympathetic figures. I think it's a result of living in an age of too much sappy autobiographical writing.
    • 4/5
      Written with just as much melodrama as you'll see in every film adaptation, Shelly's novel is nonetheless still quite powerful. Frankenstein still allows parallels to be drawn with our times despite being originally published nearly 200 years ago. For all its symbolism it remains a very human story.
    • 2/5
      I have read Frankenstein twice now and it just doesn't do it for me. Very imaginative ideas but the story just doesn't go deep enough for me.
    • 3/5
      In the last year I watched the two Bela Lugosi films of Frankenstein and was curious to read the book. They are remarkably different,yet complement each other. If you can cope with a lot of gothic gushing and emoting it's a worthy read.
    • 5/5
      It would be unfair to both Shelley and the author of the Afterword to write a short review of this masterpiece. Thus I will not attempt to accomplish this dificult task. Suffice it to say that the deep dilemmas posed by this novel are still relevant for us and no film adaptation can match the atmosphere of the original novel. (PS: Would it make a great exercise to re-read the book in the light of the strong Artificial Intelligence or Artificial General Intelligence theses?)
    • 1/5
      I had to read this for my high school humanities class. This book is overrated. Just because it's a classic doesn't make it good. Neither does the fact that it was by a woman. I won't blasphemize by saying that movies are better (actually, I will), but they are. The dialouge is lengthy and not realistic, even for the times. It is obvious that Mary Shelly does not feel any sympathy for the monster at all, which makes the novel six hundred percent less interesting. She says nothing of the actual horror, only the reactions to such. Save yourself some time and skip this.
    • 3/5
      What happens to a society's outsiders? Do those on the fringes of civility revel in their differences or are they forced to wonder why they were made mentally or physically deficient in one way. No matter how superior they can make themselves do they ever feel that they were created equal? Frankstein isn't a horror story, it's a conversation with God from the lips of anyone who's been made to feel like an abomination.The monster tells his story with eloquence and ultimately explains his actions in a way that seem more lonely than vicious. It's also no coincidence that the book begins and ends on the ship the Milton. As the author of Paradise Lost, the struggle between an angel created for the purpose of being a demon and his creator, between man deciding whether to take advantage of the tool of free will granted to him or live in subservience, the struggle between action and cosequence are as apt to Milton's work as they are in the struggles between the characters of this novel. Each symbol in this book are deftly placed to support a somewhat sacriligous inquiry of whether a creator has much control over his creation. Those looking for the stout green-faced monster and angry mobs of the movies will be surprised that neither are present in this novel. Loneliness, purpose, and atonement are the harrowing aspects of Frankenstein. This is a novel of ice and emptiness; a severe cold which is responsible for chilling readers to the bone.
    • 3/5
      The story is good and addresses some interesting moral and philosophical topics, although the writing style is a bit verbose. It's worth a read if for no other reason than to dispel the myths created by the movie versions of the story. I found it entertaining and, in some respects, had much more compassion for the monster than for Victor Frankenstein.
    • 4/5
      For all its faults, the introduction reminds me that this is one of the few Gothic novels that is still read today. There is much that a modern reader would find difficult to believe - primarily the idea that a created being with no instruction, could become not only literate but positively academic in his mode of expression. Not to mention being able to develop the skills to keep himself alive with the assistance of not a single person. But putting that aside, there is a true theme of horror in this novel - not of the creature, but of the cavalier way in which Frankenstein creates life and then abandons his responsibility. Not only abandons, but rejects, again and again, the moral imperative he has to care for his creation. This is a cautionary tale against pursuing knowledge beyond the ability to take responsibility for that knowledge.
    • 4/5
      I did not agree with most of Shelley's philosophical points... But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy her story. Synopsis- everyone pretty much knows this but- Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster man who is obviously misunderstood and hunted. Not one of my favorites though.
    • 5/5
      Best-ever illustrated version of Frankenstein.
    • 5/5
      The story is amazing. It's one of my all time favorites. This particular edition is easy to read, but, as with many Watermill Classics, the cover is fairly plain, but it has held up pretty well over the years. This is the copy I usually loan out, and it has had a lot of abuse, but this edition has weathered it all well.
    • 4/5
      I'm glad i finally took the time to read this fairly short classic. Shelley has a gift for narration. She did a great job of both building and destroying sympathy for both frankenstein and his monster. The paradise lost refrences were the only part I would have rather done without.
    • 4/5
      Who knew the romanitcs adn their idealized view of the past would lead to sci-fi (i.e. idealization of the future) masterpiece as this? Iconic elements of the story are created by clashing the Romance of the 18th Century meets the Industrial revolution of the 19th century. (P.S. Fans of Karloff will be dissapointed.)
    • 5/5
      Another book that I read my senior year. As I recall, I pretty much bombed the essay I had to write, but it didn't matter. I am in love with this book...and the myth that Shelley had a dream that operated as the catalyst for it just makes it that much better. And all the ethics and morals that Dr. Frankenstein and the author must struggle with help increase the sharp tension that characterizes the novel: Will he follow the creature's demands, or will he attempt to take control of the creation that he most likely should not have attempted to bring to life? A disquieting read, one that futurists should take heed of.
    • 4/5
      Frankenstein is one of those books which everybody thinks they know the story but that happens to be totally different from the popular account. The story is multi-layered: A story told in letters giving an account of another life. The most surprising fact is the erudition of Frankenstein's monster that, by the way, speaks French despite being created in Germany (probably out of German body parts) by the troubled existence of Viktor Frankenstein who is from the city of Geneva. The monster learns French by observing a French refugee family in Germany and reading the few books in their library.The different story lines, protagonists and motifs are a sprawling mess. A modern editor would certainly have triggered a clean-up of the manuscript towards one of these strands as the novel is at times a horror story, a Bildungsroman, travel and adventure writing and even a part-time romance. This complexity has made it very difficult to produce a good movie. Most memorable are certainly the different characters - though not yet imagined as Boris Karloff and the mad scientist. The different scene locations are also featured prominently. Landscape is very important too with scenes in Switzerland, Germany, France, England and the North Pole.
    • 5/5
      I didn't know what to expect from this book, although I did suspect it would be quite unlike the Hollywood and Hammer film versions of it. It is different and surprisingly easy to read, considering its age. I think this is because of the variety of first person narratives and the cleverness of Mary Shelley and her story. I find the basic idea about a proud man creating a monster he can't control still brilliant, shocking and as relevant today as it must have been when it was first written.