Frankenstein The Original 1818 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Mary Shelley Classics

Frankenstein as a piece of cultural mythology, I actually hadn't read the book.

I love the book. The book is brilliant, obviously. You know, it's one of like, what, five books published that were written by women in the 19th century?

I love the book. The book is brilliant, obviously. You know, it's one of like, what, five books published that were written by women in the 19th century? I know I'm exaggerating, but like, you know, not easy to do.

I just watched Frankenstein last night. You did? You did. Yeah. Wait a second. I just watched Frankenstein last night. No, I'm sorry. During the day yesterday, not last night. ... I can't say enough about you and Frankenstein. It's incredible.

Good luck with Frankenstein. We're all going to go see it. What a talent!

I read the book, which I had also never read. Frankenstein is so lovely in the book.

Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? Mary Shelley? Fuck. Yeah. They got it.

Such a good movie. If you guys haven't seen Frankenstein, you got to go check it out.

It eventually becomes Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, which is the full title. I never knew that. The condensed refresher that no one needs, but it will be fun to do, is that Frankenstein's about a young scientist who makes the very risky decision to play God, designing a creature that looks somewhat human and using electricity to jolt it to life.

It's released anonymously. So her name is not on the book in the beginning. And it's a small publisher, not particularly well known. There's only about 500 copies that they put out on very cheap paper and with no fanfare.

And Frankenstein. There's two creators who have created life. Geppetto creates the naughty puppet who redeems himself and then Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein, truly a masterpiece.

I listened to the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It's a great exercise in cognitive empathy, hugely complicating a moral assessment of the situation by looking at things from the eyes of a monster.

I listened to the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley... it's a great exercise in cognitive empathy... it hugely complicates a moral assessment of the situation by looking at things from the eyes of a monster.

I listened to the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It's a great exercise in cognitive empathy... it hugely complicates a moral assessment of the situation by looking at things from the eyes of a monster.

The most famous product of this is Frankenstein, which is a novel that in which the weather gets progressively worse and worse and worse.

I'd urge anyone who hasn't read it to read it because it's fantastic.

We will be looking at thrilling Gothic bodice rippers like Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein, as well as iconic stories like The Great Gatsby or Little Women, and then also some more modern stuff.

We will be looking at thrilling Gothic bodice rippers like Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein, as well as iconic stories like The Great Gatsby or Little Women.

Let's start simple off. I think everybody knows the story of Frankenstein, yes? So meaning you literally put together everything that is physical, everything that is biological, you glue it all together. But that body still doesn't come alive. So I think in the story of the Frankenstein, there is still one missing element, which sometimes you could refer to as electricity, or the spark, or the fire.

You know, in the Truth and Beauty, I write a chapter on Frankenstein, in which I make the argument that Frankenstein, the Dr. Frankenstein who creates this monster has not violated, as Mary Shelley did, has not violated God's prerogative. He's violated a woman's prerogative. He's created a being, which we all do. Anyone who has a child has created a living being, but he creates it without a mother. And if you read Frankenstein in that way, by immoral action.

She read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Great Expectations by Dickens.

Frankenstein proved that he was so dumb, he thought a monster needed a sport jacket.

But in any case, putting Frankenstein's dress code to the side, his point about privilege is important.

the source material, the reason people keep getting the source material wrong is the whole thing is about how secular atheism robs people of their meaning. That's the entire basis of the Mary Shelley book.

I'm reading it to my daughter right now. She's a little young for it, but we're doing it anyway. She's 11 and I'm reading it to her. The entire thing is about how once you dispense with God, what you end up with is basically meat and how that robs people of their soul.

Frankenstein was published in 1818, long before spies were getting nuclear scientists off their nut and asking them questions about fission.

but mostly from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, which many consider to be the first science fiction book.

I really wanted to read Mary Shelley's novel, which I've never read before... I did, however, read your introduction to, like, I think it's a 2021 annotated version of the novel.

I was trying to capture ... Bernie Wrightson who illustrated for me the best illustrated version of the novel.

and from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

I really wanted to read Mary Shelley's novel, which I've never read before speaking to you again, and I wasn't able to find the time to do it.

No, no, no. There are so many things that are in the novel.

When the creature meets Victor in the frozen north, he says, well, this is what happened to me, and he proceeds to tell him his itinerary of degradation and humanization and learning the language with the family of the hermit. All of that is in the novel.

Another famous book that uses or references Prometheus is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's book, Frankenstein.

And yeah, or what's the full title? Frankenstein, a Modern Prometheus.

So I'm fascinated. So this is Dr. Frankenstein not so much bringing fire to the world but creating life.

This seems like you're transgressing God or something, right?

So Frankenstein comes from that

It's what inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein When she read about the experiments with dead frogs If you poked them with electricity, their legs jumped

And it struck me that many, many literary ghost stories that you read begin... I'm going to tell you something that's quite unbelievable, but I really want you to know this really, really happened to me.

And it struck me, well, what they would do in TV if they told a ghost story is just put a camera in someone's face and the person would tell you, this really happened to me.

For the record, Rich, when you're done watching Frankenstein on Netflix, I was referencing unknown number of the high school catfish.

I'm about to fly home tonight. Anyway. Frankenstein.

I mentioned Frankenstein. Guillermo del Toro's Frankensteins on Netflix. It's actually pretty decent so far.

We talk Frankenstein.

I interviewed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about his lifelong obsession with Frankenstein and his new adaptation in which the creature is tormented by eternal life.

I started like reading more about Shelley. Mary Shelley wrote that when she was 17 years old.

I liked that they made the monster human. Not as a real life human, but made him feel human. Able to talk too, because that's not a, that's never been a thing.