geneva (switzerland)

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.

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.

Presents an edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" that highlights and defines 629 vocabulary words that may appear in the SAT, and includes a glossary defining more than one hundred additional challenging words.

Legendary physicist Max Hoffman creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets, generating astonishing returns for his investors, but after an intruder breaches security and breaks into his lakeside mansion, he must discover who is trying to destroy him.

Contains Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" about a scientist who creates a monster from various dead bodies and H. G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" in which victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by an ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures, and includes a selection of essays on themes in the two novels.

Presents the final 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's novel about a young medical student who creates a living being and suffers violent consequences for his actions; and provides historical and biographical background, contextual documents, and overviews of psychoanalytic, feminist, gender, Marxist, and cultural criticism using "Frankenstein" as a critical model.

The author presents a collection of fifteen short stories about her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and all the craziness and bumps that go along with growing up.