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Episode 87: “A Dude who Made a Dude,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part I

Episode 87: “A Dude who Made a Dude,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part I

Update: 2025-05-19
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Mary Shelley was 18 when she started writing Frankenstein, which many consider the first science fiction novel. Over the next twenty years, she revised the book several times, and the version she left behind remains a remarkable work of imagination. Shelley is amazingly inventive and talented, but the lads find th novel to be hard going, and a slow starter. They wonder at the use of framed narratives, and how long the book takes to give Frankenstein’s creation a voice.
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Episode 87: “A Dude who Made a Dude,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part I

Episode 87: “A Dude who Made a Dude,” or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Part I

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