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or The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley M. K. Joseph. Mary Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS FRANKENSTEIN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY was born in. Front Cover.
or The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley M. K. Joseph. Mary Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS FRANKENSTEIN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY was born in. Front Cover.
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... , philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers. span world OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS MARY SHELLEY Frankenstein OR The Modern Prometheus.
... , philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers. span world OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS MARY SHELLEY Frankenstein OR The Modern Prometheus.
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or The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley M. K. Joseph. OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS MARY SHELLEY Frankenstein OR The Modern Prometheus Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is. Edited with an Introduction and ...
or The Modern Prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley M. K. Joseph. OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS MARY SHELLEY Frankenstein OR The Modern Prometheus Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is. Edited with an Introduction and ...
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... Frankenstein, she was not quite nineteen; yet none of her later novels has achieved anything like the same universal hold on the imagination. Whatever she may have owed to other novelists, particularly to her father William Godwin and ...
... Frankenstein, she was not quite nineteen; yet none of her later novels has achieved anything like the same universal hold on the imagination. Whatever she may have owed to other novelists, particularly to her father William Godwin and ...
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... Frankenstein, whether or not Mary had first-hand knowledge of the Characteristicks at the time she wrote the novel. Before 1816 Shelley seems to have been unaware of the potent symbolic significance of the myth; it was Byron, to whom ...
... Frankenstein, whether or not Mary had first-hand knowledge of the Characteristicks at the time she wrote the novel. Before 1816 Shelley seems to have been unaware of the potent symbolic significance of the myth; it was Byron, to whom ...
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