by Mary Shelley · PENGUIN CLASSICS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141198965
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«Frankenstein» is Mary Shelley's gothic horror novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with unravelling the secret of life, creates a creature from dead bodies. Horrified, he abandons it, and the rejected creature turns against its creator. The novel reflects on ambition, responsibility and the limits of science, and was born from a nightmare of Mary Shelley.
This 2012 edition belongs to the Penguin English Library collection; the novel was first published in 1818 and the BBC included it in its list of 100 novels that changed the world.
Recommended for readers of classics, students of English literature and reading clubs interested in the gothic genre.
Nineteenth-century English writer, author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the first works of science fiction and a Gothic horror classic.
