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`Playing with Fire (After Frankenstein)'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19990127
Author:Andrew Patner

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Few works of literature have had as pervasive an influence on popular culture as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, a novel of philosophy and terror. Its afterlife is all the more remarkable, because few people have actually read the book.

Stretching back to medieval Jewish legends of the "golem," a man-made humanlike creature, Shelley's book inspired the 1920 German silent film classic "Der Golem," and then, of ...

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