Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, 2012

'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a nightmare in 1816 when she was only eighteen, became a modern myth. It is a disturbing and dramatic exploration of birth and death, creation and destruction, and one of the most iconic horror stories of all time. Подробнее

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, 2008

Frankenstein es una obra apretada de pensamiento, entrecruzada de ideas, cargada de vivencias y contradicciones personales que parecen flotar en ambivalencias, pero es un fiel reflejo de lo que la autora debía ser cuando la escribió. Es cierto que adolece de los fallos propios de la juventud: la capacidad intelectual del monstruo es espectacular, las coincidencias favorables para él son excesivas, la historia de los De Lacey resulta demasiado extensa, y el frágil dominio del lenguaje de la autora se demuestra constantemente en las múltiples ocasiones en que Víctor «no puede escribir sus emociones» o «no puede narrar los horrores». Cierto es también que los motivos o las causas quedan generalmente sin explicación, pues en los momentos cruciales Víctor se desmaya o duerme. Подробнее

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, 2010

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. Scientist Victor Frankenstein, is determined to create intelligent life. He works night and day on his experiment until at last he succeeds. Only then does he realize that what he has created is a monster. Abandoned by its maker and rejected by everyone it meets, the monster sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everything he holds dear. Подробнее

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, 2013

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works. Подробнее

Frankenstein

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, 2013

This is a stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. This edition also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by John Polidori, as well as an introduction and notes. Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three. Подробнее

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