Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Autore: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Casa editrice: Project Gutenberg
data di pubblicazione: 1993 -10
Lingua: English
Formato: ebook
Numero di pagine: 215

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley   

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"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, & then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life & stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room & a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron & Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism & the origins of life--conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein .
Written in 1816 when she was only 19, Shelley's novel of The Modern Prometheus chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written & is an undisputed classic of its kind.

(Note: This edition is the 1831 revision.)

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