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 Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:36 pm
Here's a link from Literature.org to the first book we'll be discussing: "Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley.
I think you'll find the original story quite a bit different from the movie versions. I know I did when I read it.
I suggest that we read a chapter at a time, starting with the Preface, and discuss it.
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 6:23 am
The book starts with a preface (possibly written by the author's husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) telling how it came to be written.
An interesting side note here. Shelley wrote her novel during the rainy summer of 1816, sometimes referred to as the "Year Without a Summer." An eruption the year at Mount Tambora had locked the known world in a long, cold, miserable "volcanic winter", according to Wikipedia.
Then it opens with four letters written by fictional explorer Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Saville. As were many actual explorers of the time, Walton is trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific.
The letters are actually necessary to the story, "setting the stage" for the ending. Especially, the fourth letter. where Walton's ship gets caught in the ice.
I suggest reading all four letters as though they were a single chapter.
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