Frankenstein - Brossura

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Brossura

ISBN 10: 098092104X ISBN 13: 9780980921045

Casa editrice: Engage Books, 2008

Riassunto

Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. Victor is immediately horrified by his ambitious creation, and flees his apartment in remorse. The newborn monster disappears from Frankenstein's laboratory and enters the world as an outcast, struggling with his own identity. What follows is a gripping tale of murder, injustice, and revenge. Since 1818 Frankenstein has been associated with scientists who are consumed with their experiments, and oblivious to the repercussions. Among them are the brains behind the nuclear arms race, scientists who create super bacteria, and laboratories that experiment with artificial black holes. But most notably is the area of science devoted to gene manipulation, both in genetically modified foods and human cloning. Frankenstein has much to teach us in a world where we constantly test the limits of science and human ambition.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mary Shelley was born the child of two of the most famous free-thinking intellectuals then living, and she eloped with one of the greatest poets of the age. She wrote her great novel, ''Frankenstein'', about human monstrosity as part of a contest between friends during a trip to Switzerland in 1814, at a time when she was consistently either pregnant, nursing, or mourning a dead child, and also struggling with her husband's debt and pursuit of sexual relationships with other women.

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Book by Shelley Mary

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Engage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 098092104X
• ISBN 13: 9780980921045
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Disegnatore: Von Holst Theodor