Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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...

"Una lúgubre noche de noviembre, el joven científico Victor Frankenstein desafía a la naturaleza dando vida a una criatura espantosa. Horrorizado por la fealdad de su propia creación, Frankenstein abandona al monstruo a su suerte. Pero la criatura sobrevive y removerá cielo e infierno para vengarse de su creador..." -- 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...

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, in an annotated edition that offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds.

Victoria and her assistant, her dog Igor, set out to make amazing slime, but one night their creation unexpectedly comes to life.

"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...

A dedicated science student obsessed with bestowing life to lifeless matter creates a living being from stolen body parts. Includes unabridged book and full-length feature film based on the book.