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Frankenstein: how Mary Shelley's sci-fi classic offers lessons for us today about the dangers of playing God

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

Frankenstein: What Mary Shelley’s sci-fi classic teaches us about the dangers of playing God

Most significantly, as one of the first works of science-fiction, it explores the dangers of humans pursuing new technologies and becoming God-like.

The New Daily

American monster: Yes, but who made him?

Maureen Dowd's description overlooks a crucial point: It took decades of America's decay to birth this monster

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Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world.

The Conversation

Kit Harrington’s new Mary Shelley film ‘Mary’s Monster’: Everything you need to know

The Game of Thrones star will play the monster in this modern take on Frankenstein

Evening Standard

‘Frankenstein Steps’ restoration begins in Dundee as contractors start work

The site is next to the cottage where legendary horror author Mary Shelley lived as a young woman.

Daily Record

Poem of the week: To … by Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Valentine’s Day, we return to one of the first Romantic poems I fell for, which reveals a lot about ‘what men call love’

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