Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Signet Classics)

Shelley, Mary

ISBN 10: 0451523369 / ISBN 13: 9780451523365

Editore: Signet Classics, New York, NY, 1983

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Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight. 224pp. Codice articolo 062330

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Titolo: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (...

Casa editrice: Signet Classics, New York, NY

Data di pubblicazione: 1983

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) explores the consequences of our lust for power. But it is also the story of how the different and the deviant are excluded from human society. Frankenstein's ''Creature'' is arguably the least monstrous character in this story of murder, revenge, and isolation.

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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.