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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York TimesMary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.
EdituraPenguin Books Ltd
Dimensiuni196 x 130 x 21
Data Publicarii30/01/2003
FormatNecartonata
Numar pagini352
Aceasta este o carte in limba engleza. Descrierea cartii (tradusa din engleza cu Google Translate) este in limba romana din motive legale.
Unul dintre ,,100 de romane care au modelat lumea noastra" ale BBC ,,Acea poveste rara care sa treaca din literatura in mit" The New York Times Povestea gotica infricosatoare a lui Mary Shelley a fost conceputa cand avea doar optsprezece ani, locuind cu iubitul ei Percy Shelley pe lacul Geneva. Povestea lui Victor Frankenstein care, obsedat de a crea viata insasi, jefuieste cimitire pentru materialul pentru a modela o noua fiinta, dar a carui creatura ratacita isi propune sa-si distruga creatorul, va deveni cea mai faimoasa opera de fictiune horror din lume si ramane o fictiune devastatoare. explorarea limitelor creativitatii umane.