Frankenstein (eBook)

Mary Shelley (Autor)

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2018
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-945186-20-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Enduring power. The New York TimesPackaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. The series features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to the striking personal narratives from Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our literary history through the words of the exceptional few.Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, is often referred to as one the most important literary works of all time. Having been adapted and reprinted thousands of times, and often cited as the birth of the gothic novel and the science fiction genre, Frankenstein has captivated readers for centuries. It is the haunting tale of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque and cognizant being through a scientific experiment. The monster, as its frequently referred to throughout the novel, consists of sewn body parts from multiple cadavers being used for scientific research. On a dark, stormy night, the creature is brought to life by being shocked with an electrical current harnessed from a lightning storm. The novel explores scientific practices such as galvanism, as well as the ethical repercussions of bringing the deceased back to life.With its grim, but gripping narrative, Frankenstein is the classic story of life and death, humanity and monstrosity, and blurring the lines in between.

Autor

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in 1797 in London, England. She was the daughter of two eighteenth-century intellectual giants: political philosopher William Godwin and famed feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley was also married to the famed poet Percy Byshe Shelley, for who she spent the majority of her life trying to publish his work. Her magnum opus, Frankenstein, was conceived on a rainy night at Lake Geneva after a waking dream that she had a few nights after Lord Byron had proposed that they each write a ghost story. Suffering from a possible brain tumor, Shelley passed away in 1851.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: 1816 • 1818 Text • 1831 • Abomination • Ambition • Arctic • barry moser • bernie wrightson • Bolts • Brian Aldiss • classic gothic • classic horror • Classic Literature • create life • creating life • Creator • Critical Essays • daemon • dead tissue • Dracula • dr jekyll • early science fiction • feet tall • fiend • galvanism • Geneva • Germany • giving birth dead body • Gore • Gothic Horror • green monster • Henry Clerval • hideous appearance • hideously ugly • horrible monster • horror literature • Human nature • Igor • Ingolstadt • jacquie • John Polidori • literary classics • literary science fiction • london russian • lustrous • mad scientist • marilyn butler • Mary Shelly • Modern Prometheus • morality tale • mrs shelley • Munster • Paradise Lost • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Percy Shelley • physical appearance • pitchforks • play god • Playing God • Rejection • Robert Louis Stevenson • Romantic literature • sad story • Science Fiction • scientific experiment • self-glory • taking responsibility • tampering • true monster • Victor Frankenstein • watery eyes • William Godwin • wollstonecraft shelley • wretch • wretched • yellow skin
• ISBN-10: 1-945186-20-8 / 1945186208
• ISBN-13: 978-1-945186-20-2 / 9781945186202