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Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) Fiction.
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"Capable of re-animating dead tissue, Frankenstein built a human being and brought it back to life, only to reject his own horrifying creation. Confused, the creature fled--and soon the land was engulfed by the flames of hatred and murder."--Container.
Gothic fiction
The chilling tale of Frankenstein with running vocabularies for SAT preparation.
A monster assembled by a scientist develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Modern Prometheus
An abridged dramatisation of Mary Shelley's original novel written in 1816. Her idea, that the 'daemon' is originally harmless but becomes a monster by the way he is treated, is dramatised on these discs.
VIctor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.
Speeches, oratory
Gothic horror tale of a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Classic House Cassettes presents Frankenstein
James Mason reads an abridged version of Shelley's novel about a scientist who creates a monster.
Classic story of the doctor who created life from dead tissue, and in the process made a creature whose spurned hopes for human intimacy leave him monstrous and unrepentant.
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"Statʹ podobnym Bogu i sozdatʹ zhivoe sushchestvo--derzkoe i chestoli︠u︡bivoe zhelanie cheloveka. K kakim posledstvii︠a︡m ėto prevedët i smozhet li chelovek vynesti bremi︠a︡ sozdateli︠a︡? Molodomu i talantivomu uchenomu Viktoru Frankenshteĭnu v resulʹtate nauchnogo ėksperimenta udaetsi︠a︡ sovershitʹ nevozmozhnoe--sozdatʹ zhivoe cushchestvo, obladai︠u︡shchee nedi︠u︡zhim intellektom i pylkim serdt︠s︡em, no s vneshnostʹi︠u︡ monstra. Chto ozhidaet chelovekopodobnoe sozdanie v zhestokom mire li︠u︡deĭ i kak 'otblagodarit' on svoego sozdateli︠a︡ i ego semʹi︠u︡?"--Container insert.
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Advanced. Speed Level 6 (100-110 wpm). A huge powerful monster has set out to avenge his painful and horrible life. Made from parts of dead bodies this famous but tragic character has a horrible life because of his horrible maker a crazy scientist. A legendary horror story.
"Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. 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"--Publisher's description.
Frankenstein
The Original 1816 classic, one of the greatest horror stories ever written.
Contra lo que muchos creen, Frankenstein no es el monstruo creado de trozos de cadáveres, sino el doctor que hace esa horrenda creación, que como en tantas leyendas, acaba volviéndose contra su creador.
Graphic novels
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster. Its impulses are benevolent, but its ugliness reviles even its creator. When schooled by a blind man about morality, its benevolence becomes hatred. Its exacting of revenge for the immorality of its existence takes creature and creator from the Swiss countryside to the desolation of the Arctic.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Curl up on a lonely evening, with lights low and perhaps a storm raging outside, and return to the nineteenth century to experience the classic evocation of the macabre.
A tale of horror about a being pieced together from dead bodies.
Tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and puts this knowledge to use by creating a monster being.
A BBC Radio dramatisation of Mary Shelley's classic tale. Frankenstein was written by a teenager and the story has all the energy and emotional intensity of this time of life. It's a thrilling, horrifying adventure, packed with incident and breath-taking moments. But the incident and surface horror are metaphors for deeper, ever relevant themes: the hubris of science and those who practise it without moral responsibility; society's attitudes to difference; the quest for love. Most importantly, it raises profound questions about children; the love/hate relationship between parents and adolescents; the guilt and pain suffered by both when it all goes wrong. Dramatised by Lucy Catherine. Starring Jamie Parker as Frankenstein, with Shaun Dooley, Susie Riddell, Alun Raglan, Robert Blythe, Sam Alexander, Christine Alexander, Patrick Brennan, Bruce Alexander, Emma Hook, Joe Sims and Don Gilet. Music by Colin Guthrie. Directed by Marc Beeby.
"Mary Shelley began writing 'Frankenstein' when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, 'Frankenstein' tells the story of commited 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."--Publisher.
Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human" being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens all who see it. Lonely and miserable, it comes to hate its creator. The monster murders Frankenstein's brother and his bride, and flees. The doctor pursues his creation in order to destroy it, but dies himself in the attempt.
Presents the story of a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.
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Frankenstein a Kaplan SAT score-raising classic
Een student in de chemie schept een levend wezen dat hem als een afschuwelijke robot tot in de poolstreken blijft achtervolgen.
One man's search for the meaning of life and death and his extraordinary experiments to create life have profound and tragic implications for himself and for those he loves.
Playaway
Dramatic version of the story of the creation of a monster.
Eager science student Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. Although initially excited that his experiment is a success, Frankenstein becomes horrified at the grotesque being that stands before him and flees. Angered by the rejection, The Monster retaliates by taking the lives of those dearest to Frankenstein. The decision to play God torments both Frankenstein and The Monster he created until the end of their days.
Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant and driven scientist with a passion for discovering the way the world worked. In a fit of madness, Frankenstein perfects a method for reanimating dead tissue, and uses it to form a creature. Terrified by his own creation, he is forced to face the consequences of creating a being with superhuman powers and a desperate need to be loved...
This classic gothic novel by Mary Shelley features Victor Frankenstein, who, after studying philosophy and chemistry at the University of Ingolstadt, becomes obsessed with the idea of discovering the secret to creating life. When he succeeds in manipulating pilfered body parts into a single living creature, Victor is horrified at the result. As he seeks to destroy his creation, his creation destroys much that Victor holds dear in an effort to gain companionship and comfort.
Science fiction
This is a classic horror story about a monster, endowed with life by a young scientist named Frankenstein, who later turns on his creator. First published in 1818.
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger to the lives of those he loves.
Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus
Sound recordings
Contra lo que muchos creen, Frankenstein no es el monstruo creado de trozos de cadáveres, sino el doctor que hace esa horrenda creación, que acaba volviéndose contra su creador.
Audiobooks
Classics
PLAYAWAY. The classic horror story in which a young doctor creates life. The creature he assembles from the bodies of convicts and the brain of a brilliant scientist soon realises that he will be rejected by society and goes on a rampage seeking revenge on the doctor who gave him life.
Talking books
NBC Theater presents Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a spine-chilling classic for the whole family. Also includes 30 bonus minutes of spooky Halloween sounds.
Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus
Since he was a young boy, science fascinated Victor Frankenstein and how to stop people from dying but instead he found a way to bring the dead back to life.
Frankenstein Narration by James Mason
Radio plays
A young scientist creates a living creature from the dead, but his creation haunts the village and eventually destroys its maker.
Een student in de chemie schept een levend wezen dat hem als een afschuwelijke robot tot in de poolstreken blijft achtervolgen. Met informatie over de auteur, een filmoverzicht, verschillende oefeningen en woordverklaringen in het Engels.
The classic tale of the "mad" scientist who dares to try to create life.
Frankenstein [Book on CD]
Frankenstein is a dark and brooding dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel, and stars Michael Maloney as the scientist who makes a creature in his own name. Denied a female counterpart, the creature turns on his creator, then murders Frankenstein's brother. In an attempt to destroy his creation, the scientist tracks him to the Arctic ...
Epistolary fiction
Horror fiction
"As a result of Victor Frankenstein's creation of a monster from the remains of human corpses, a series of horrifying events occur. But who is ultimately responsible--the monster or his creator?"--container.
Young adult works
Frankenstein [electronic resource]
In the spring of 1863, as he faces battle for the first time at Chancellorsville, Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Audiolibros
"Стать подобным Богу и создать живое существо--дерзкое и честолюбивое желание человека. К каким последствиям это преведёт и сможет ли человек вынести бремя создателя? Молодому и талантивому ученому Виктору Франкенштейну в ресультате научного эксперимента удается совершить невозможное--создать живое ∎ущество, обладающее недюжим интеллектом и пылким сердцем, но с внешностью монстра. Что ожидает человекоподобное создание в жестоком мире людей и как 'отблагодарит' он своего создателя и его семью?"--Container insert.
Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human being", and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens all who see it. Lonely and miserable, it comes to hate its creator. The monster murders Frankenstein's brother and his bride, and flees. The doctor pursues his creation in order to destroy it, but dies himself in the attempt.
Originally broadcast on the NBC radio program Short story.
Victor Frankenstein decides to build a man from assembled body parts stolen from corpses. He becomes obsessed with his 'project' and believes that he is pioneering scientific discovery, without considering the potential consequences. What results, of course, is a monster, who looks grotesque and frightens any living soul who ever comes into contact with it.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was the first horror novel, shocking and intriguing those who read it at the time of its composition. Like her hero, Victor Frankenstein, Shelley transgresses the boundary between life and death. Victor Frankenstein stitches together a monster out of charnel parts and brings him to life, exposing him to a world that hates and fears him, and which he learns to hate in return. The monster begs his creator to make him a bride, in order that he should not be completely alone in the world. The monster vows vengeance at Frankenstein's refusal, and carries it out in a dreadful way. But Shelley does not make the monster wholly monstrous -- rather, hers is a monster with a conscience, albeit one exercised far too late.
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
"Texte enregistré. Peu de personnages de fiction connaissent un succès tel que Frankenstein. Adaptations, imitations, représentations? Qui n'en n'a jamais entendu prononcer le nom? Qui, en revanche, connaît réellement le Frankenstein de Mary Shelley? Retrouvez la saveur originelle de l'oeuvre mythique de Shelley dans une adaptation respectueuse servie par 12 comédiens. La dimension humaniste et pédagogique d'une oeuvre, somme toute romantique, est ici privilégiée pour dispenser aux enfants une morale de tolérance et d'acceptation des différences. La délicatesse de l'oeuvre est mise en relief par une composition musicale de Marie-Hélène Fournier pour quatre musiciens. Dix comédiens complètent une distribution des plus soignées où Robin Renucci incarne le gracile et désabusé docteur Victor Frankenstein, aux prises avec sa créature, animée par un hargneux au coeur tendre Denis Lavant.
Fiction
"Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a "human being", and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural size and strength, is revolting to look at, and frightens all who see it. Lonely and miserable, it comes to hate its creator. The monster murders Frankenstein's brother and his bride, and flees. The doctor pursues his creation in order to destroy it, but dies himself in the attempt"--Container.
Victor Frankenstein, who, after studying philosophy and chemistry at the University of Ingolstadt, becomes obsessed with the idea of discovering the secret to creating life. When he succeeds in manipulating pilfered body parts into a single living creature, Victor is horrified at the result. As he seeks to destroy his creation, his creation destroys much that Victor holds dear in an effort to gain companionship and comfort.
Horror tales
Mary Shelley's gothic tale is the world's most famous work of horror fiction. The story concerns Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with fashioning a new being leads him to create a pathetic, but monstrous creature--an act that has terrifying consequences.
The classic tale of the man who attempted to create life in his own image, and suffered the terrible consequences. The resultant creature resembles a monster and shunned by society, takes revenge on its creator.
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.
The monster was supposed to be man's benefactor, but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge on his creator and the human race.
Frankenstein : Originaltext und Wortschatzhilfen im Begleitheft
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ; read by Tom Casaletto
Adaptations
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. 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. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein. Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? And how far can we go in tampering with Nature?
Juvenile works
Incredible tale of the creation of a monster man.
This immortal horror story, which has implications for modern science and genetic engineering, has captured the imagination of countless generations.
Drama
Readers for new literates
Frankenstein a recorded dramatization of the classic tale of horror
The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid of horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816, dealt more sympathetically with "the daemon", showing how an initially beneficent creature is hammered into a daemon by the way he is treated. Her ideas, and her dramatic but poignant story, is brought to life in this sound dramatisation.
James Mason reads an abridged version of Shelley's novel about a scientist who created a monster.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot 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. He confronts his maker with a terrible choice: unless Frankenstein creates for him a mate, he will go on a rampage of destruction. A subversive tale about the corrupt tendencies in humanity's most "civilized" ambitions.
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. The first science fiction novel.
The story of a young scientist who discovers how to create life.
An ambitious young scientist succeeds in creating a living creature but one whose visage repulses even its maker. Condemned to loneliness by the fear he inspires, the creature learns to hate and destroy, becoming the monster he is taken for. This Gothic masterpiece is also recognized as the first science-fiction novel.
Frankenstein is the name of the doctor that created a monster that in the end turns on the doctor.
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
Gothic novels
Frankenstein Cassette Pack
High interest-low vocabulary books
A monster created by scientist Victor Frankenstein from parts of corpses and brought to life develops loathing for himself and hatred for his creator as he learns to think for himself.
Mary Shelley's 1818 gothic tale of horror about a scientist who imparts life into inanimate matter.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. 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 himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ...and horror.
Electronic books
A monster has been loosed upon the world - superhumanly strong, inhumanly vicious. Its inventor knows he must find and destroy it - halt its career of terror and murder! But as Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist, pursues his monster through the night, he hears the echo of its fearsome voice: "You are my creator, but I am your master. Obey!" -Back cover.
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.
Frankenstein Spooky sounds. --
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, whose obsession with discovering "the cause of generation and life" leads him to assemble a human being from stolen body parts.
The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid of horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816, dealt more sympathetically with 'the daemon', showing how an initially beneficent creature is hammered into a daemon by the way he is treated. Her ideas, and her dramatic but poignant story, is brought to life in this sound dramatisation.
Julie Harris reads Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Provides a dramatic presentation as well as historical perspective, plot summary, thematic insights, critical analysis, glossary, and more.
Frankenstein an NBC theatrical adaptation
A classical example of Mary Shelley's writing, read by Cindy Hardin and Donald Wight.
Horror stories
Talking books for young adults Compact disc.
Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) Fiction.
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Frankenstein (Personaje literario) Novela.
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