FrankensteinCollector's Library, 2004 - 279 pagina's Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Purporting to be the record of an explorer, it tells of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward student of science, who builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified by what he has done, he abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast for his horrific appearance, learns language and becomes civilized. In time, he attempts to join society but is rejected because he is assumed to have murderous intentions. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost in monomaniacal hatred. In 1831, Mary Shelley succumbed to conservative pressure and toned down the more radical elements of the work. The novel is here presented in its original, unexpurgated form. |
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... dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818 . Purporting to be the record of an explorer , it tells of Victor Frankenstein , a brilliant but wayward student of science , who builds a ...
... dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818 . Purporting to be the record of an explorer , it tells of Victor Frankenstein , a brilliant but wayward student of science , who builds a ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. FRANKENSTEIN Did I request thee , Maker , from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ? Paradise Lost , x , 743-5 TO WILLIAM GODWIN author of Political Justice , Caleb Williams.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. FRANKENSTEIN Did I request thee , Maker , from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me ? Paradise Lost , x , 743-5 TO WILLIAM GODWIN author of Political Justice , Caleb Williams.
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