Product Details
Kaplan Publishing, May 2011
Mass Market Paperback, 464 pages
ISBN-10: 1607148641
ISBN-13: 9781607148647
Description
Kaplan guarantees that readers will improve their SAT score using guides—or get their money back.
Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan’s SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam.
Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout.
Each Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features:
Kaplan’s SAT Score-Raising Classics series give readers get an invaluable learning tool and an enjoyable reading experience.
Vocabulary is a critical part of studying for the SATs. Memorizing words that are written on flashcards can be difficult because they are not put in the context of a sentence. Kaplan’s SAT Score-Raising Classics make learning SAT vocabulary words easier and more enjoyable for students. Classic novels that are taught throughout high school can now be read while learning vocabulary words that frequently appear on the SAT exam.
Designed for easy use, these books feature the actual text on one side of the page, with the word definitions on the opposite side. In addition, the vocabulary words are in easy-to-spot bold typeface throughout.
Each Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features:
- The complete text of the classic novel
- Hundreds of vocabulary words tested on the SAT exam
- Definitions for each highlighted work on the facing page
- A pronunciation guide
- An index for easy reference
Kaplan’s SAT Score-Raising Classics series give readers get an invaluable learning tool and an enjoyable reading experience.
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Browse Inside FrankensteinBriefingWire.com, October 14, 2011
...A new adaptation of the classic novel offers a modern twist. BriefingWire.com, 10/14/2011 - This Halloween, Frankenstein will return from the shadows of libraries, film vaults and pop culture to wreak havoc on the vampires and werewolves ...
Superhero Hype!, October 12, 2011
...On the look of the creature and returning to Mary Shelley's text Just days after word broke that Aaron Eckhart would be playing the lead in the upcoming I, Frankenstein, ComingSoon.net had a chance to sit and speak ...
CBC Ottawa, October 11, 2011
...for children's literature. His newest book is the gothic tale, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. In his gothic tale of the young Victor Frankenstein, Oppel recalled a couple of lines in Mary Shelley’s book, ...
Sacramento Bee, October 11, 2011
...Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" has, no pun intended, taken on a life of its own. Her widely known, if not widely read, tale of Gothic horror was first published anonymously in ...
Examiner.com, October 7, 2011
...- Like this? Subscribe to get instant updates. The "Frankenstein" onslaught is moving into high gear. Lionsgate has announced that Aaron Eckhart will play Adam Frankenstein in the Lakeshore Entertainment, Hopscotch Features and Lionsgate ...
Sugarscape, October 6, 2011
...We all know Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein about Victor Frankenstein who creates the monster. Well Kenneth Oppel's new book goes back in time to when Victor was an adventurous young lad ...
Health Affairs, May 9, 2011
...A Doctor’s Story (Hyperion, 2009), is a “memoir-manifesto” about caring for his father with Alzheimer’s disease. Mary Shelley was prescient beyond her years when in 1818, at the age of only eighteen, she created her famous character, ...
CHUD, May 7, 2011
...I was very worried about Thor. The last Kenneth Branagh directed movie that I watched was the awful Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on DVD a couple of months back, the acting was so over the top... Reviewed by Jessica Blunt forgettable .... ...
San Francisco Chronicle, April 19, 2011
...problems. Petrouchka didn't have a blue fairy, though. Always good to have a blue fairy. And the Frankenstein monster! Talk about real-world problems. He didn't ask to be born, any more than Petrouchka or Pinocchio did, but he had lots of ...
BioNews, April 18, 2011
...What does Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have in common with Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner', Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' and Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'? According to Philip ...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2011
...and myth with scientific rationalism, psychiatry and anthropology in a manner that resembles that other great gothic creation, Frankenstein . But, like Mary Shelley's monster, the novel is much more than the sum of its parts. Despite – or ...
Times Higher Education Supplement, April 6, 2011
...he disappears into the snow and dies; an image, incidentally, that recalls the fate of the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. But Gerald's death in the desert is equally consistent with his character, for it represents his ...
Marshfield News Herald, April 6, 2011
...centuries. One poet who is not well known is Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822 ("To a Skylark"). His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the novel, "Frankenstein." Some poets didn't receive recognition until after their deaths. Edgar Allen Poe and Emily ...
National Post, March 30, 2011
...Benedict Cumberbatch achieves a looming, slow-moving, painfully eloquent triumph as the Creature in Frankenstein. Man, look in the mirror. Behold a Monster. In the British National Theatre production of Frankenstein, two young actors ...
National Post, March 30, 2011
...Man, look in the mirror. Behold a Monster. In the British National Theatre production of Frankenstein, two young actors alternate in the roles of the eponymous scientist and his scarifying creation. Two weeks ago, courtesy of National ...
Running In Heels, March 28, 2011
...Cumberbatch and Miller in Frankenstein Part of me really wanted to be disappointed with Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein ; to come out, smugly, announcing that there was no substance to the most hyped production of the ...
New Zealand Herald, March 26, 2011
...What: Frankenstein - National Theatre LiveWhere and when: Rialto, Newmarket, & Bridgeway, Northcote, from March 31 With the threat of nuclear catastrophe looming over Japan, the cautionary tale of Mary Shelley's ...
New Straits Times, January 6, 2010
...about my favourite story in the collection, Starfish. “Yes, it was about a dream I had, just like Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. I had read an article about Japanese comfort women working in Indonesia during World War II and had a bad ...
Guardian.co.uk, November 13, 2009
... Sue Arnold on Frankenstein, The Coral Island, Animal Farm and children's classics Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, read by Daniel Philpott, Jonathan Oliver and Chris Larkin (2½hrs abridged, Naxos, £10.99) Friends on holiday ...
Helium, November 2, 2009
...Frankenstein Review Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is widely considered to be one of the best horror/ gothic novels ever written. It is dark and compelling, and closely examines the darker side ...
Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2009
...components. And we're feeling Halloween-y with two more reviews. Today it's " The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein " by Peter Ackroyd, in which Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet the real Victor Frankenstein. Reviewer Thane ...
Huffington Post, October 30, 2009
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Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2009
...First, a confession: I am Victor Frankenstein. Not the Victor Frankenstein, of course, who was, after all, not a real person but a literary invention from the mind of Mary Shelley. As the godmother of Gothic horror ...
Cleveland Live, October 25, 2009
...4by/k1%>Daniel Dyer Frankenstein, circa 1818, has proved a most potent crea ture. He has fathered stories, plays, music, treatises, works of high and low art, Halloween costumes, a U.S. postage stamp and ...
New York Times, October 20, 2009
...stories live on stage, radio-style, are offering two modern takes on Halloween icons ? Edgar Allen Poe and Frankenstein ? with live performances of original scores and eerie sound effects. Nosedive Productions A scene from ?The Blood ...
Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2009
...How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for "Frankenstein"? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary ...
MySanAntonio, October 4, 2009
...Nan A. Talese, $26.95 If readers didn't know that Victor Frankenstein was a fictional character in an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, it would seem absolutely natural to believe that Victor Frankenstein had been a fellow college student and ...
University of Delaware, October 4, 2009
...girl in 1816, to the latest paperback version edited by Charles Robinson, University of Delaware professor of English, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein continues to spark controversy as scholars debate her most famous creature and how it was ...
Helium, October 3, 2009
...Mary Shelly first thought of writing 'Frankenstein' during a cold night when her friends decided to make up ghost stories. She did not intend to create a genre, but follow the traditions of the dark and mysterious ...
Huffington Post, September 29, 2009
...authors does it take to create a monster? Random House recently published a new edition of the novel Frankenstein with a surprising change: Mary Shelley is no longer identified as the novel's sole author. Instead, the cover reads "Mary ...
Blogcritics.org, September 19, 2009
...Mary Shelley was a rather extraordinary woman in her time, although this really had to be expected considering that her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the mothers of the Feminist ...
Blogcritics.org, September 19, 2009
...Mary Shelley was a rather extraordinary woman in her time, although this really had to be expected considering that her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the mothers of the Feminist ...
Suite101.com, September 17, 2009
...1818 Frankenstein Novel vs. Modern Versions of the Creature © Renee Holmes In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel, the reader has the opportunity to become intimate with a creature that is both ...
The Independent, September 3, 2009
...LongPen (which allows writers to sign their novels digitally). "This is not mad scientist stuff. It's not Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Science is a tool, like a hammer. You can use it for good or ill, to build a house or to murder your ...
Daily Iowan, September 3, 2009
...despite the relatively new term, the actual idea of a nerd dates back many more years. Characters in Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein and Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice (namely Mary Bennet), are all classic examples of nerds, Nugent said. They ...
Washington Post, August 26, 2009
...Psycho,' and Miles's trek toward the Arctic Circle to find his unstable twin contains uncanny echoes of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.' Of course, Stephen King haunts the backwoods where Ryan is holed up with his computer-genius dad, and if ...
New York Times, July 11, 2009
...the poet Laurie Shecks novel, A Monsters Notes, sounds like a thriller: the creature immortalized in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is alive and living in New York. He reflects on the muddled lives of the Shelleys and their entourage abandoned ...
WNEP-TV 16, July 1, 2009
...Hellboy? films, also has plans to reanimate some musty and monstrous literary classics. He plans to make a ?Frankenstein? film as well as an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft?s epic ?At the Mountains of Madness,? a project he breathlessly refers ...
Lake County News, June 15, 2009
...won gold ? First Place in Historical Fiction ? for her debut novel, ?Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein.? Dwyer?s novel has received accolades before ? it was nominated in April for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction and won ...
The Independent, May 10, 2009
...he is sidelined by angels with a better grasp of modern technology. A third tale finds him reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, consoling himself with the thought that all creators end up fleeing from the things they have wrought. Elsewhere, ...
Delmarva Daily Times, April 6, 2009
...School class weighs liability of doctor in classic fiction novel SALISBURY -- Determined to create life, scientist Victor Frankenstein births a murderous being in the likeness of man in Mary Shelley's novel 'Frankenstein.' 'I suggest you ...
Oxford Mail, March 6, 2009
...of manuscripts and rare books. On past World Book Days, the library has displayed The Gutenberg Bible (2004), Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, (2005), a Shakespeare First Folio (2006), and Kenneth Grahame?s The Wind in the Willows (2007). Mr ...
Helium, March 4, 2009
...As the reader reads on, he realizes that he already knows the back-story for this novel. It is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. So the moment that Deucalion realizes that he must leave his sanctuary and find his maker is the moment when he is ...
North County Times, February 22, 2009
...Wagman-Geller has written a well-researched and fun behind-the-scenes look at those dedications in front of most books. From Mary Shelley's dedication to William Godwin in 'Frankenstein' to Michael Chabon's dedication to Ayelet in 'The ...
Bournemouth Daily Echo, February 11, 2009
...list, we buy multiple copies.? Bournemouth Library?s Adult Fiction Top 20 list for December reveals local author Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein was the most borrowed title for the month, but Gerardine explained another promotion was responsible ...
Northeast Journal, February 9, 2009
...Martin and his wife, Susan, gossiping, laughing and sharing ideas. 'Things started to come together. I was re-reading Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, which is really called Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, and I realised this man ...
What's On North East, February 9, 2009
...Martin and his wife, Susan, gossiping, laughing and sharing ideas. ?Things started to come together. I was re-reading Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, which is really called Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, and I realised this man ...
Guardian Unlimited, February 7, 2009
...unjustly neglected and little known works' of great authors, Hesperus has gathered for the first time five of Mary Shelley's short stories published between 1829 and 1837. As Kamila Shamsie notes in her affectionate foreword, the tragic ...
Comic Book Bin, February 2, 2009
...ISBN: 9780345506405 $22.95 U.S., $25.95 CAN, 144pp, Color, hardcover with dust jacket Del Rey?s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son is the latest hardcover graphic novel release coming out of Del Rey?s publishing venture with comic book company, ...
International Herald Tribune, January 23, 2009
...start to fall. Horizons shrink. Couples bicker. Cars slide off roads. Obliteration tends to loiter between the sentences. Mary Shelley sent Frankenstein onto a glacier to confront his monster. Dickens juxtaposed Scrooge's wretchedness ...
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