Book title : Frankenstein
Author : Mary Shelley
Retold by : Patrick Nobes
Publishing hourse : Oxford University Press
The novel belongs to a series named "Oxford Bookworms Library".
This simplified edition was published on 2000.
I think that will help if I know more about the author or the creation background of story, when I read this novel. So I want to introduce something about the author , Mary Shelley. She lived in nineteenth century Europe. Her parents were both writers and famous people of that time. In addition , her husband is Percy Bysshe Shelley , who is a well-known English romantic poet . Merry Shelley wrote many books in her life , but today she is remembered only for her first novel , Frankenstein , also is this novel. The idea for this story came to her when she and her husband were staying with their fried , Lord Byron , another well-known English poet , at his villa near Lake Geneva. One storm night Byron suggested that everyone should write a ghost story. At first Mary did not have any idea , but later she had a dream in which a monster appeared , and then Frankenstein was born according that dream. When Mary wrote this story , she was only nineteen and expecting a baby. Two of her children had already died young , and we can see in this story her fears and worriws about preguncy , childbirth , and the way children develop in later life. By the way, Frankenstein is often called the first science- fiation story.
I have not finished reading this novel , but will be soon done. The vocabulary in this rewritten edition are not difficult for me , so I can read it roughly smoothly. But sometimes I also don't comprehend the meaning of context , so I will read that paragraph again. I consider I can take a serious thinking about some issues mentioned in the novel , like "How and what science affect us ?" . For me this story is besides a little horrible and sad , it also instructive. I will keep going.
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