by Mary Shelley · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620306
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«Frankenstein» is Mary Shelley's gothic novel, published by Penguin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Victor Frankenstein, a student obsessed with the secrets of life, manages to give life to a creature that escapes his control. The loneliness and rejection the being suffers turn it into a threat, and its creator will pay the consequences of his ambition in a story about responsibility and human nature.
Edition published on February 24, 1994 in the Penguin Popular Classics collection. The novel originally appeared in 1818 as «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus».
For readers of gothic horror and science fiction classics.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
