Frankenstein

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RH Value Publishing: Frankenstein (Hardcover, 1985, Random House Value Publishing)

Hardcover

English language

Published Nov. 16, 1985 by Random House Value Publishing.

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978-0-517-60237-9
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The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, if not the first. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein, after going through his own near-death experience, decides to play God and create life in the form of a grotesque creature, which turns into a nightmare. Through his experience, he learns that the gift of life is precious, not disposable. His journey and personal transformation has deeply affected readers. This edition contains the text of the revised 1831 version of Frankenstein.

This beautiful book comes with luxurious endpapers, a beautiful and stylish heat-burnished cover, and is a convenient 5 x 7 trim size for easy handling. This widely popular classic tells a tale of devastating consequences for …

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An unexpected pleasure

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I wasn't expecting to like this book anywhere near as much as I ended up doing! The story as told in the book is much more interesting than the limited image of it that's got in to popular culture, and this was my first encounter with the whole thing. It's so much more about deeply flawed Victor Frankenstein (TLDR: our reading group kept using the term "main character syndrome") than about the mad science process. And while the creature is far from likeable, his portrayal has genuine pathos, even though most of what we hear about him is secondhand through the recounting of someone who hates him.

There are several impressively strong resonances to the modern world, between the general lack of ethics in tech and the current wave of "AI" hype. And of course big self-centred men who think that extreme success in one sphere gives them licence to …

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¡Qué novela magnífica! Frankenstein es una conmovedora fábula constelada por personajes de las sensibilidades más elevadas en la que se reflexiona sobre la condición humana y el alcance del deber moral con la intensidad emotiva propia del Romanticismo.

Para quien no esté familiarizado, la criatura imaginada por Mary Shelley poco tiene que ver con el monstruo verdoso con la frente alargada que forma parte del imaginario "halloweenesco" contemporáneo. Lo que en esta novela encontramos es lo siguiente: Un protagonista, Viktor Frankenstein, un joven ginebrino movido por una sincera pasión por las ciencias naturales, admirado de la naturaleza y de las leyes que la gobiernan, orgulloso de su propio intelecto pero con una gran inclinación moral hacia la humanidad. Por otro lado, el demonio, la criatura que artificialmente recibió la vida otorgada por Frankenstein, un ser con inteligencia y conciencia humanas pero con cuerpo deforme y sobrehumano, y que, a …

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