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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (17971851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823.Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815 along the river Rhine in Germany stopping in Gernsheim, 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before, an alchemist engaged in experiments. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. The topic of galvanism and occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband Percy B. Shelley. Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made, inspiring the novel. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character «makes a deliberate decision» and «turns to modern experiments in the laboratory» to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays.Since the novel's publication, the name «Frankenstein» has often been used to refer to the monster itself. In the novel, Frankenstein's creation is identified by words such as «creature», «monster», «daemon», «wretch», «abortion», «fiend» and «it». Speaking to Victor Frankenstein, the monster says «I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel» (which ties to Lucifer in Paradise Lost, which the monster reads, and which relates to the disobedience of Prometheus in the book's subtitle).-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook CompositionBook PublicationBook Reception

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HUMOR: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Woody Allen, George Carlin, Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling, Dr. Seuss, Albert Einstein, Steve Martin, Chris Rock, Robin Williams And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. Charles M. Schulz-Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. Jim Henson- I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen- I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx- The reason I talk to myself is because Im the only one whose answers I accept. George Carlin- Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. Benjamin Franklin Wade

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PHILOSOPHY: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Socrates, Plato, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Alan W. Watts, Epictetus, Confucius And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle-The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw-Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. Lao Tzu-I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Socrates-You do not write your life with words… You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. Patrick Ness-The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato

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SUCCESS: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Anthony Robbins, Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Henry Ford, Michael Jordan, Oprah, Winston Churchill And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. Neil deGrasse Tyson-Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success. Robert T. Kiyosaki-When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres-Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston S. Churchill-Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. Albert Einstein

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MUSIC: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Marilyn Monroe, Bob Marley, Pablo Neruda, J.K. Rowling, Gandhi, Paulo Coelho, John Lennon, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. Lady Gaga-I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know… I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland. Woody Allen-Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche-After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley-Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. Confucius-Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. Johnny Depp

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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of 3 or 4 families in a country village. The novel was first published in December 1815, with its title page listing a publication date of 1816. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in GeorgianRegency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters and depicts issues of marriage, gender, age, and social status.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like. In the first sentence, she introduces the title character as Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich. Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.Emma, written after Austen's move to Chawton, was the last novel to be completed and published during her life, as Persuasion, the last novel Austen wrote, was published posthumously.This novel has been adapted for several films, many television programmes, and a long list of stage plays. It is also the inspiration for several novels.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Publication History

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TRUTH: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: J.R.R. Tolkien, Mother Theresa, Oprah Winfrey, Coco Chanel, Andy Warhol, Charles Darwin, Lao Tzu, Alan Watts, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Austen And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.– Ernest Hemingway-There are no facts, only interpretations.– Friedrich Nietzsche-Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.– Leo Tolstoy-Youre not obligated to win. Youre obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.– Jason Mraz-Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.– C.G. Jung-What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.– Helen Keller

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WRITING: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Stephen King, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Hermann Hesse, Carl Sagan, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, George R.R. Martin, George Orwell And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison-You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle- We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. Anais Nin- Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. Lloyd Alexander-No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost- Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King

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Resistance to Civil Government, called Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the MexicanAmerican War (18461848).-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook BackgroundBook Summary

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.The longer and revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray published in book form in 1891 featured an aphoristic prefacea defence of the artist's rights and of art for art's sakebased in part on his press defences of the novel the previous year. The content, style, and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own right, as a literary and artistic manifesto. In April 1891, the publishing firm of Ward, Lock and Company, who had distributed the shorter, more inflammatory, magazine version in England the previous year, published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Wilde. It exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the «uncensored» version submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters). As literature of the 19th century, The Picture of Dorian Gray «pivots on a gothic plot device» with strong themes interpreted from Faust. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Literary Significance

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