“It’s Alive!” You’ve Seen the Movie, Now Let’s Consider the Book: Understanding Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from victorian movies Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 44 min 82 sec
✓ Published: 20-Aug-2018

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** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall **nnAugust 16, 2018, in the Main Reading Room of the Linda Hall Library.nnThe program:nnIf your knowledge of the Frankenstein story begins and ends with the movies, you are missing out.Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, is at once more frightening than any of its filmed versions, and also a deeply personal account of what it means to be ‘human.’ After reading this book, you could come away wondering who was