by Mary Shelley · Unidad Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788481301328
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«Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo» is the Gothic horror novel by Mary Shelley, published by Unidad Editorial in hardcover (239 pages, in Spanish).
Doctor Victor Frankenstein challenges the limits of knowledge and gives life to a creature formed from the remains of corpses. Abandoned by its creator and rejected for its appearance, it embodies a difference that is not tolerated. The work invites reflection on scientific ambition, the responsibility of creating life, and intolerance towards what is different.
1999 edition included in the collection Las 100 joyas del milenio (no. 18). Translation by Manuel Serrat Crespo and prologue by Ana María Moix.
For readers of classics, horror and science fiction interested in moral dilemmas about science and creation.
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.
