by Mary Shelley · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476729281
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«Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo» is the Gothic novel by Mary Shelley, published by Unidad Editorial in hardcover (223 pages, in Spanish).
Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist, creates a creature assembled from cadaver parts and, horrified, abandons it. Rejected by its creator and by society, the monster forces him to face the consequences of his experiment in a tale that questions the limits of science and human responsibility.
This edition belongs to the Milenium collection (number 18); the novel was originally published in 1818.
For those who want to start with the classics through a not-too-long read; the horror is more psychological than explicit.
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.
