Author: Maggie Sokolik
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: John William Polidori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment.The summer of 1816, on the shores of Lake Leman, Mary Shelley, Percy B. Shelley, Lord Byron and the doctor of the latter, John William Polidori, each of them promised to write a mystery story similar to those of ghosts with those who entertained their leisure time in that rainy summer. Only the idea of an immortal work emerged from the challenge: Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. And it also happened that Polidori, already removed from Lord Byron and returned to London, decided to try his luck in the world of letters by publishing his story The Vampire under the name of Byron; he publicly abominated the story while Polidori claimed himself as its author, which was true, although no less true was that he was inspired by the unfinished story that Lord Byron conceived to fulfill that evening. Polidori finally committed suicide in 1821 without having obtained any success in the field of literature, but with that story he established the figure of the vampire as we know it in Western tradition.

Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 087140950X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley’s classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro). "Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley’s novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster films or as a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire. Now, two centuries after the first publication of Frankenstein, Klinger revives Shelley’s gothic masterpiece by reproducing her original text with the most lavishly illustrated and comprehensively annotated edition to date. Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley’s early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author’s revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein’s indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory, and modern intellectual history—not to mention film history and popular culture. The result of Klinger’s exhaustive research is a multifaceted portrait of one of Western literature’s most divinely gifted prodigies, a young novelist who defied her era’s restrictions on female ambitions by independently supporting herself and her children as a writer and editor. Born in a world of men in the midst of a political and an emerging industrial revolution, Shelley crafted a horror story that, beyond its incisive commentary on her own milieu, is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. The daughter of a pioneering feminist and an Enlightenment philosopher, Shelley lived and wrote at the center of British Romanticism, the “exuberant, young movement” that rebelled against tradition and reason and "with a rebellious scream gave birth to a world of gods and monsters" (del Toro). Following his best-selling The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger not only considers Shelley’s original 1818 text but, for the first time in any annotated volume, traces the effects of her significant revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions. With an afterword by renowned literary scholar Anne K. Mellor, The New Annotated Frankenstein celebrates the prescient genius and undying legacy of the world’s "first truly modern myth." The New Annotated Frankenstein includes: Nearly 1,000 notes that provide information and historical context on every aspect of Frankenstein and of Mary Shelley’s life Over 200 illustrations, including original artwork from the 1831 edition and dozens of photographs of real-world locations that appear in the novel Extensive listings of films and theatrical adaptations An introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Anne K. Mellor

Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393064506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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The bestselling author of "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker's "Dracula." 35 color and 400 b&w illustrations.

Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781793440006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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The ultimate collection of classic horror. Dracula by Bram Stoker - Read the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood, spreading the horrors of the undead curse, and follow the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Follow the harrowing tale of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. He finds, however, that there are terrible consequences for playing God...

Author: S. L. Varnado
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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To celebrate one hundred days in Miss Bindergarten's kindergarten class, all her students bring one hundred of something to school, including a one hundred-year-old relative, one hundred candy hearts, and one hundred polka dots.

Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel written by Bram Stoker from Ireland. The story tells about a vampire, trying to move from Transylvania to England and of the battles between a group of volunteers led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing with Dracula. During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, Jonathan Harker finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Although at the beginning of his stay he is impressed by the kindness of Dracula, soon he discovers its strange properties and realizes that it was trapped in his castle. His nightmare experience there is just the start of a macabre chain of events. A young English solicitor is attacked by three phantom women and learns that after Dracula leaves for England, he will be destined for them as a victim. But it isn't everything... Harker is a witness of the Count's transformation from human to bat form and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Jonathan decides to escape the mysterious castle and finds himself in a race against time to free his wife Mina and other souls who are in thrall to the Dracula. The book includes short story about Vlad the Impaler, who was liable for slaying tens of thousands of people and impaling innocent people.

Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781801722599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897, is a horror novel that tells the story of young protagonists in the world of vampirism and the thirst for power presented by the famous Dracula. Discover this literary classic that significantly influenced the world of entertainment. One of the most spectacular novels of the 19th century, Dracula Bram Stoker still frightens his readers today as he did more than a century ago. The story of Terror, such as The Metamorphosis and Frankenstein's, has become a modern myth and has been interpreted countless times on stage, radio, television, and film. xi Dracula Bram Stoker combined Central European folk tales of nosferatu, or the undead, with historical accounts of the prince of the fifteenth century, Vlad the Impaler, who allegedly impaled 100,000 victims and received the epithet Dracula (a derivative of the Romanian drac or "devil"). Critics have seen the vampirism of history as a Victorian literary sublimation of sexuality. A sequel to the 2009 original Dracula: The Un-Dead, based on the novelist's notes and excisions, was written by Dacre Stoker (author's great-grandson) and Ian Holt. It was set in London in 1912 and featured Bram Stoker as a character. You may want to know another novel genre like The Feather Pillow, which is also creepy. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula takes place with young real estate lawyer Jonathan Harker and his trip to Romania to complete negotiations with Count Dracula of Transylvania. Arriving at the mansion, he began to detail strange behaviors in the Count, such as his disappearances at night, lack of appetite, and reflection in the mirrors.

Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631492640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection "The most exciting and definitive collection of Lovecraft's work out there." –Danielle Trussoni, New York Times Book Review No lover of gothic literature will want to be without this literary keepsake, the final volume of Leslie Klinger’s tour-de-force chronicle of Lovecraft’s canon. In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim— vaunted as a “treasure trove” (Joyce Carol Oates) for Lovecraft aficionados and general readers, alike. Hailed by Harlan Ellison as an “Olympian landmark of modern gothic literature,” the volume included twenty-two of Lovecraft’s original stories. Now, in this final volume, best- selling author Leslie S. Klinger reanimates twenty-five additional stories, the balance of Lovecraft’s significant fiction, including “Rats in the Wall,” a post– World War I story about the terrors of the past, and the newly contextualized “The Horror at Red Hook,” which recently has been adapted by best- selling novelist Victor LaValle. In following Lovecraft’s own literary trajectory, readers can witness his evolution from Rhode Island critic to prescient literary genius whose titanic influence would only be appreciated decades after his death. Including hundreds of eye- opening annotations and dozens of rare images, Beyond Arkham finally provides the complete picture of Lovecraft’s unparalleled achievements in fiction.

Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0871409496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley’s classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro). "Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley’s novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster films or as a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire. Now, two centuries after the first publication of Frankenstein, Klinger revives Shelley’s gothic masterpiece by reproducing her original text with the most lavishly illustrated and comprehensively annotated edition to date. Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley’s early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author’s revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein’s indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory, and modern intellectual history—not to mention film history and popular culture. The result of Klinger’s exhaustive research is a multifaceted portrait of one of Western literature’s most divinely gifted prodigies, a young novelist who defied her era’s restrictions on female ambitions by independently supporting herself and her children as a writer and editor. Born in a world of men in the midst of a political and an emerging industrial revolution, Shelley crafted a horror story that, beyond its incisive commentary on her own milieu, is widely recognized as the first work of science fiction. The daughter of a pioneering feminist and an Enlightenment philosopher, Shelley lived and wrote at the center of British Romanticism, the “exuberant, young movement” that rebelled against tradition and reason and "with a rebellious scream gave birth to a world of gods and monsters" (del Toro). Following his best-selling The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger not only considers Shelley’s original 1818 text but, for the first time in any annotated volume, traces the effects of her significant revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions. With an afterword by renowned literary scholar Anne K. Mellor, The New Annotated Frankenstein celebrates the prescient genius and undying legacy of the world’s "first truly modern myth." The New Annotated Frankenstein includes: Nearly 1,000 notes that provide information and historical context on every aspect of Frankenstein and of Mary Shelley’s life Over 200 illustrations, including original artwork from the 1831 edition and dozens of photographs of real-world locations that appear in the novel Extensive listings of films and theatrical adaptations An introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Anne K. Mellor