Shelley, M: Frankenstein

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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2011

The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic!Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic wastes, the story retains its narrative hold on the reader even as it spins off ideas in rich profusion.
About the Author:
Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. She died in London in 1851.
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Mary Wollstonecraft was a British author, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights was born in Spitalfields, London, on April 27, 1759. She is considered one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists of today credit her life and work with having had a significant effect. Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, London, on April 27, 1759. She used to lay outside her mother's bedroom door as a teen to keep her safe. She convinced her sister Eliza to separate from her husband and their young kid in 1784. Wollstonecraft was introduced to Fanny Blood by the Clares, a Hoxton couple who adopted her as their own. She gave Blood credit for widening her horizons. Original Stories from Real Life, her first children's book, was written by her in 1788. In December 1792, one month before Louis XVI was murdered, she fled for Paris. Instead of radical Jacobins, she made friends with moderate Girondins during her time in Paris. Mary Wollstonecraft was disappointed by how the Jacobins treated women in 1790s France. Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft's second daughter, was born on August 30, 1797. During delivery, the placenta broke and caught an infection. In the eighteenth century, childbed fever (post-partum infection) was a common and frequently deadly condition. Wollstonecraft died on September 10th, 1797, from septicemia.

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At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the elements of horror and suspense.