Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus

Shelley, Mary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019953716X ISBN 13: 9780199537167

Casa editrice: Oxford, 2013

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture―the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
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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.

Product Description:

Book by Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft