by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192815323
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«Frankenstein, o El Moderno Prometeo» is Mary Shelley's gothic novel, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (270 pages, in English).
Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist obsessed with the secret of life, creates a being from human remains and abandons it upon seeing it. Rejected by all, the creature becomes vengeful and brings tragic consequences. The novel explores unbridled ambition and the moral responsibility of those who defy the laws of nature.
1982 edition in the Oxford World's Classics series, edited by James Kinsley and M. K. Joseph. The novel was originally published in 1818.
Aimed at students of English literature and those seeking a classic of gothic horror in its original language.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.
