Frankenstein: Easy to Read Classics

Mary Shelley

2012年2月 · Bring the Classics to Life 第 30 本图书 · EDCON Publishing Group

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Bring The Classics To Life Series. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Readers will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. Knowledge of Classics is a cultural necessity and these will improve fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through a high Interest / low readability format. Each eBookis divided into 10 short high quality illustrated chapters - Was written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary - Has been measured by the Fry Readability Formula - Defines and uses in context new vocabulary, prior to each chapter.

作者简介

Mary was born in 1797. Her mother died when she was eleven days old and when she turned four years old her father married Jane Clairmont., who had children of her own. In 1814 Mary started a relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley who was a poet-philosopher and they married in 1816. Mary conceived her idea for Frankenstein while on vacation in Geneva. In 1818 she returned to England after the death of her two children and her husband. Frankenstein was published in 1818. The last years of MaryÕs life were plagued by illness and she died on February 1, 1851.