by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788420731810
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«Frankenstein» is the gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, published by Austral in Spanish.
Victor Frankenstein, a scientist obsessed with the origin of life, brings to life a creature he then abandons. Rejected by everyone, the creature seeks out its creator, and the story becomes a reflection on ambition, loneliness and the responsibility of creating.
A novel of gothic literature, also classified as science fiction; the work dates from 1818.
For those seeking a nineteenth-century classic and interested in the gothic or the antecedents of science fiction.
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.
