Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus (Vintage Classics)

Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus (Vintage Classics)No one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English

as she wrote to a friend

Almost two decades ago

Liz and Lisa

Rachel Kushner’s rendition of “noir” is taut and dazzling

which Mbue traces in clean

Ribbon Cut

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon

But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules

cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance

part intergalactic scavenger hunt

a coil of rope