by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437614021
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«Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo» is the Gothic novel by Mary W. Shelley published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Victor Frankenstein, a student interested in natural sciences, manages to unravel the origin of life and create a creature that proves monstrous and of unsettling lucidity. Published when its author was twenty and without revealing her name, the novel has become a contemporary myth.
Edited by Isabel Burdiel, number 230 of the Letras Universales collection and sixth edition. The novel was originally published in 1818.
With translation by María Engracia Pujals and critical apparatus, suitable for literature students or readers who want to delve into the classic.
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.
