Mary Shelley

Karen Swallow Prior

Frankenstein. Jane Eyre. You're familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able to rattle off a few quotes, but do you really know how to read these books? Do you know anything about the authors who wrote them, and what the authors were trying to teach readers through their stories? Do you know how to read them as a Christian? Continuing this beautifully designed series, bestselling author, literature professor, and avid reader Karen Swallow Prior will guide you through a selection of classics. She will not only navigate you through the pitfalls that trap readers today, but show you how to read them in light of the gospel, and to the glory of God.

A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

Frankenstein

Hannah Rockett

Inês Lemos S.

Sadie Hoffman

Helen 

Mabel Palomera

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

karissa🌙

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

里森

Alas! why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

nadine 

Selina 

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know out infantile dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives. A sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shown early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be contemplated with suspicion.

Nica

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

Taryn

I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. 

ariana

Debemos seguir nuestros caminos y comprender que somos afortunados mientras nos quede alguien que la muerte no nos haya arrebatado.

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