Frankenstein [Paperback]

Durante el lluvioso verano de 1816, cuatro de los escritores ingleses más talentosos de su tiempo se dieron cita en Villa Diodati. La mansión a orillas del lago Ginebra fue el escenario en que Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley y Mary Shelley se retaron a escribir una historia de terror. Aquel juego llevó a la autora londinense a crear Frankenstein, una de las grandes cimas del horror gótico y una brillante reflexión sobre la ética científica. La novela narra el intento de un joven estudiante de medicina de crear vida artificial y las terribles consecuencias de su experimento.

During the rainy summer of 1816, four of the most talented English writers of their time gathered at Villa Diodati. The mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva was the setting in which Lord Byron, John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley were challenged to write a horror story. That game led London-based author Mary Shelley to createFrankenstein, one of the great heights of Gothic horror and a brilliant reflection on scientific ethics. The novel recounts the attempt of a young medical student to create artificial life and the dire consequences of his experiment.

Mary Shelleywas a British narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher, and biographer, best known for her Gothic novelFrankenstein, or The New Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

More than 200 years after its publication, this book remains a brilliant and essential reflection on scientific ethics, as well a literary masterpiece, and here it is translated and accompanied by engrossing illustrations.