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Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. 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 to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman a clef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters.

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill ...

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Una expedición al Polo Norte se cruza, en mitad del mar helado, con un misterioso hombre gigantesco marchando en un trineo a toda velocidad. Horas después, rescatan a otro un hombre a punto de morir. Cuando este se recupera, relata al capitan la historia de como ha acabado alli, persiguiendo a aquella criatura monstruosa.Se trata de Victor Frankenstein, un joven avido de conocimientos cientificos, obsesionado con la posibilidad remota de dar vida a cuerpos inanimados. para conseguirlo, crea a partir de restos de cadaveres un "monstruo" al que dota de vida para despues aborrecerle. Su creacion, que solo solicita ser querido, reacciona con violencia ante el rechazo de su creador.

Mary Shelley Introduction, notes and activities by Brian Hodgkiss Mary Shelley was not yet twenty years old when she wrote this classic tale of a scientists attempt to create a new noble species an experiment which instead produces a monster. Frankenstein is here presented in the 2nd, revised edition of 1831 and includes an analysis of the most recent criticism on Shelleys science fiction masterpiece, as well as an extensive filmography.