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Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind. But soon, he learns to hate people and becomes evil. Frankenstein has learnt how to create life. But will this life destroy him?

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, and shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion. Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, 'The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image … but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books.' Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. Grade 9 Up-Full-color drawings, photographs, and reproductions with extended captions have been added to the unedited text of Shelley's novel, thus placing the work in the context of the era in which it was written. The artwork faithfully represents the text and makes this edition appealing to reluctant readers. Unfortunately, many of the captions provide tangential information that, although interesting, interrupts the flow of the story. However, readers will quickly learn that it is not necessary to read every caption and appreciate this volume for its many quality illustrations. Michele Snyder, Chappaqua Public Library, NY br /&a

«Te recuerdo que fui creado por ti, yo debería ser tu Adán, sin embargo soy más un ángel caído, a quien le sacaste la alegría sin haber cometido ningún crimen. Por todas partes veo que reina la alegría de la cual estoy irrevocablemente excluido. Yo era benévolo, bueno; la desgracia me volvió un demonio.» Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

What you create can destroy you.One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the artic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final scientific frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy.Written when she was only nineteen, Shelley's gothic tale is one of the greatest horror stories ever written

Provides a simplified and shortened retelling of a literary classic. This book intends to encourage enthusiastic young readers to pursue an interest in literature. It is also suitable for older reade

Mary Shelley empezó a gestar esta novela en el verano de 1816, un verano lluvioso y sin apenas sol. Tal vez estas circunstancias extraordinarias propiciaran este relato de terror, en el que no solo se cuenta la historia del joven científico Victor Frankenstein y su "demoníaca criatura", sino que se abordan temas fundamentales de la naturaleza humana plenamente vigentes en la sociedad actual.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a sublime horror novel tackling the dangers associated with science. It is quite different to popular portrayal of Frankenstein's monster; he was originally a benevolent being whose early aspiration was to seek the love of men. Shelley writes the novel extremely literately, capturing not only the tortured psyche of the creator Frankenstein, but the miserable story of the monster. The novel established - if not created - the benchmark in horror writing, and is certainly on par (if not better) than Stoker's Dracula. Highly recommended!

The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's best intentions, the experiment goes horribly wrong in a timeless tale about the hazards of playing creator.

Frankesteines la historia de un científico que, con miembros de diversos muertos robados de los cementerios y cámaras mortuorias, elaboró una forma humana. El resultado: un monstruo que la sociedad tildó carente del ´´hálito divino´´. Este monstruo, deseoso de amor y simpatía, tras ser rechazado por todos, incluso por su propio creador, busca hacer todo el daño posible a quien lo creó.Puesto que Mary W. Shelley no impuso al monstruo nombre alguno, éste ha acabado por ser designado por los lectores con el nombre de su creador.Shelley ocupa un lugar destacado entre los novelistas de terror, por que su Frankestein ha legado un nombre a la mitología popular. En su género, es una obra rica en su colorido. La habilidad en dar forma a estas macabras y aterradoras fantasías es revelada aquí. Ver otros libros de Literatura de Terror

La obra maestra de Mary Shelley (1797-1851), en el segundo centenario de su redacción: el doctor Frankenstein crea a un ser abocado a la soledad.El joven doctor Frankenstein ha logrado su más ambicioso proyecto:crear vida a partir de despojoshumanos. Pero ha dado vida a un monstruo que siembra el terror alli por donde pasa, pues tiene sentimientos y grandes ilusiones.Su horrible aspecto lo condena a la soledad y al deseo de venganza hacia su creador.Hito en la literatura de terror, esta novela de Mary Shelley esta construida con fragmentos, a la manera del monstruo: cartas, confesiones, relatos dentro de relatos, van componiendo la totalidad de una historia asombrosa para su epoca, impensable en la pluma de una mujer que no puede faltar en ninguna biblioteca.

One of the greatest horror stories ever written - a scientist's quest to create life has nightmarish consequences that threaten everything he holds dear.What you create can destroy you.One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship's captain. That man is Victor Frankenstein and his story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final scientific frontier and create life. But his unnatural creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy.Written when she was only nineteen, Shelley's gothic tale is one of the greatest horror stories ever written.

Dieciocho años tenía Mary Shelley cuando escribió las primeras líneas de su Frankenstein, una obra cuya popularidad, debida en parte al cine, quizá ha hecho disminuir el número de lectores, que no se deciden a leerla por considerarla harto conocida. Y, sin embargo, Frankenstein es mucho mas que la historia de un doctor un poco raro que un dia creo un monstruo. Debajo de la aparente anecdota de terror, y aparte de los aspectos latentes de la crisis politica, social y religiosa de la epoca, surge el grito angustioso del monstruo solitario que intenta superar su deformidad por medio del amor y la razon: ¿Puedes ser feliz mientras yo me arrastro bajo el peso de mi desdicha? Ver otros libros del especial Lecturas Juveniles

Esta escritora inglesa, esposa del célebre poeta Percy Shelley, escribió Frankenstein a instancias de éste y de un grupo de amigos, entre los que se encontraba Lord Byron, mientras pasaban unas vacaciones en Suiza. La consigna era escribir, en una noche; una historia de fantasmas, y a la joven Mary, de tan sólo 18 años, se le ocurrió crear este monstruoso personaje, cuya fama daría la vuelta al mundo.