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The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship …and horror.

Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley's amendments and contributions. For the first time we can hear Mary's sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent of Percy Shelley's contribution—some 5,000 words out of 72,000—and his stylistic and thematic changes. His occassionally florid prose is in marked contrast to the directness of Mary's writing. Interesting, too, are Percy's suggestions, which humanize the monster, thus shaping many of the major themes of the novel as we read it today. In these two versions of Frankenstein we have an exciting new view of one of literature's greatest works.

Victor Frankenstein, científico ginebrino, es recogido del hielo por un grupo que viaja hacia el polo Norte. Atormentado narra su historia al capitán del barco: hace tiempo dio vida a una criatura con restos de cadaveres. Esta, enloquecida por la soledad, pronto sembro el terror.

 FRANKENSTEIN. EDIZ. INTEGRALE

Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleySiempre a la sombra de su obra más conocida, Frankenstein, esta novela, tal vez la más ambiciosa, estuvo mucho tiempo olvidada. Algunas interpretaciones recientes han visto en la extincion universal que en ella describe una metafora de los efectos destructores de un idealismo politico excesivo. Obra de vocacion futurista, ambientada en torno al año 2070, destacan entre sus personajes Adrian, hijo del destronado rey de Inglaterra y ardiente partidario de las ideas republicanas e igualitarias, y Raymond, un señor poderoso que rechaza un ventajoso matrimonio politico para casarse con su verdadero amor y que combate en Constantinopla por la libertad de un pueblo que no es el suyo. En esas circunstancias, se tiene conocimiento de una misteriosa epidemia que avanza arrasando paises enteros y que pone en peligro la supervivencia misma de la humanidad. El ultimo hombre es un clasico imprescindible que ofrece multiples lecturas: novela de anticipacion y de profecias apocalipticas, novela en clave, novela de iniciacion y relato de terror gotico.

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.