Diccionario de términos literarios (El Libro Universitario: Referencia / The University Book: Reference) (Spanish Edition)

Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And as the monster gets ever closer to his maker, hunter becomes prey in a lethal chase that carries them to the very end of the earth. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE Presents The Story Of Dr. Frankenstein And His Obsessive Experiment That Leads To The Creation Of A Monstrous And Deadly Creature. Chronology -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- Note On The Text -- Frankenstein -- Appendix I: Select Collation Of The Texts Of 1831 And 1818 -- Appendix Ii: A Fragment By Lord Byron -- Appendix Iii: The Vampyre: A Tale By Dr. John William Polidori. Mary Shelley ; Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Maurice Hindle. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [li]-lvii). Accelerated Reader Mg 6.1 3.0 Quiz:30533. *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. 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