Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Frankenstein
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 04/2012
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780141198965
- Item number:
- 1699671
- Volume:
- 268 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Weight:
- 207 g
- Format:
- 199 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 26.4.2012
- Series:
- The Penguin English Library
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
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Short description
The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker.
Blurb
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin, who disowned her when she eloped with the married man and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. They married after the suicide of his first wife. It was their friend Lord Byron, with whom the couple spent a summer in Switzerland, who suggested that she and Percy each write a horror story. Frankensteinwas the result, inspired by a nightmare Shelley had when she was eighteen years old and published by the time she was twenty-one.
Biography
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) begann schon als Kind Gedichte und Romane zu verfassen. Noch keine 17 Jahre alt, brannte sie mit dem jungen Dichter Percy Shelley durch und bereiste Europa. Im Jahr ihrer Hochzeit 1816 verbrachten beide den Sommer mit Lord Byron am Genfer See, wo sie Ideen für Schauergeschichten sammelten. Schon zwei Jahre später veröffentlichte Shelley ihren Frankenstein, den Vater aller Gruselromane, dessen Erfolg es ihr ermöglichte, fortan als angesehene Schriftstellerin zu leben.
