(1797-1851):ShewasanEnglishnovelist, shortstorywriter, dramatist, essayist, biographer, andtravelwriter, bestknownforherGothicnovelFrankenstein, or, TheModernPrometheus(1818).Shealsoeditedandpromotedtheworksofherhusband, , andhermotherwasthephilosopherandfeministMaryWollstonecraft.
2.“Likeonewho, onalonelyroad,...Dothclosebehindhimtread”:TheseLinesarequotedfromSamuelTaylorColeridge’spoemRimeoftheAncientMariner.
(1265-1321):HewasanItalianpoet, prosewriter, literarytheorist, moralphilosopher, , whichisconsideredthegreatestliteraryworkcomposedintheItalianlanguageandamasterpieceofworldliterature.
:HenryisthescientistVictor’sbestfriendandfellowstudent.
:ElizabethLavenzaisVictor’sadoptedcousinandwife.
:ItisanovelbyIrishauthorOliverGoldsmith.Itwaswrittenin1761and1762, andpublishedin1766, andwasoneofthemostpopularandwidelyread18th-centurynovelsamongVictorians.
(1866-1946):HewasanEnglishauthor, , includingcontemporarynovels, history, politicsandsocialcommentary, “TheFatherofScienceFiction”.
(1757-1827):HewasanEnglishpoet, , “whatisinproportiontoitsmeritstheleastreadbodyofpoetryintheEnglishlanguage”.
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:Publishedin1826, .
’sStonebyRowlingJ.K.:AlongwithotherbooksofHarryPotterseries, thisoneisafantasticstoryaboutPotter’-magicalDursleys, , withaninvitationtoattendtheHogwartsSchoolforWizardsandWitches, whereitturnsoutHarryisalreadyfamous.
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(1993):, whereabillionairephilanthropistandasmallteamofgeneticscientistshavecreatedanamusementparkofcloneddinosaurs.
(2000):Thisisa2000AmericansciencefictionactionthrillerfilmdirectedbyRogerSpottiswoode, starringArnoldSchwarzeneggerasfamilymanAdamGibson, , , hestumblesintoagrandconspiracyaboutclonestakingovertheworld.
