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Frankenstein-Illustrated Classics-Book

by Mary Shelly
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Overview


These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. When Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist, tries to create life in his laboratory, the result is an ugly monster. Instantly feared by all who see him, the hated monster is driven into the countryside. Never given a chance at friendship or human companionship, the monster plots a terrible revenge!

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Synopsis

Jugar a ser Dios es cosa fácil, pero tiene, para todos los involucrados, creadores y criaturas por igual, un alto, altísimo precio que entre todos pagamos tarde o temprano. Este libro nos lo hace ver y comprender magistralmente. Una criatura que ha sido engendrada con restos de cadáveres descubre que ha sido cruelmente engañada por su propio creador. Esta traición le será insoportable y provocará la espiral de la violencia con que la novela se encamina, con renovada intensidad, hacia su desolador desenlace. Mary Shelley es el padre y la madre de la ciencia ficción tal y como la concebimos: como un ejercicio de crítica de la realidad, como una visión panorámica de nuestros deseos más íntimos y de nuestros miedos más públicos. Una escritora imprescndible para entender el mundo en que vivimos, el caos que hoy nos lleva entre sus aguas turbulentas.

James Hynes

. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. —The New York Times Book Review

About the Author, Mary Shelly

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) became one of the first bestselling female authors soon after the publication in 1818 of Frankenstein, her best-known work.
Elizabeth Kostova is the author of the bestselling novel The Historian.
Maurice Hindle teaches literature at the Open University in London. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Dracula and Caleb Williams.
Daniel Clowes is the author of the graphic novel Ghost World, which was made into a feature film in 2001.

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Editorials

James Hynes

. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. β€”The New York Times Book Review

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Shelley's classic hints in part at the possible dangers inherent in the pursuit of pure science; it also portrays the injustice of a society which persecutes outcasts such as the "Monster." Disturbing and profoundly moving, Frankenstein has become part of our own mythology.

Book Details

Published
January 1, 2005
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pages
64
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781562548988

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