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(This is not the edition I read, I read the Little Black Classics edition, but it is hard enough already to find the books currently on BookLikes) Frankenstein is one of the books that has been on my TBR the longest, but this week's Little Black Classic was a less well known work by Mary Shelley w...
Mina Harker, newly qualified solicitor, was just going to Transylvania to aid in the transfer of property – the Countess is certainly a little unusual but she is also educated and worldly and she certainly appreciates that Until it becomes clear she’s stumbled onto something very unworldly, one sh...
I love Frankenstein. It’s such a polyvalent book. But the interpretation that I like the most is that it represents the failure of the 19th-century domestic ideal. It’s a middle-class ideal, and it goes as follows: a woman gets married, gives up all power to her husband, stays at home, and raises ch...
This graphic novel is very true to the original story of Frankenstein, which I liked. It's too short to really get in depth with all the characters though, and I kind of missed to get to know them all better. The illustrations are okay, but not more than that. I think they are too simple, and I woul...
Δεν μπορώ να πω πως η Ματίλντα με συνεπήρε τόσο όσο ο Φρανκενστάιν. Η ιστορία είχε αρκετό λυρισμό, άλλωστε η μελωδική γλώσσα και το γότθικο, σκοτεινιασμένο ύφος ήταν, κυρίως, ο λόγος που μου άρεσε αυτή η νουβέλα. Παράλληλα, η υπόθεση ήταν αρκετά τολμηρή και, τουλάχιστον για τα δεδομένα εκείνης της ε...