Un joven y avanzado estudiante de ciencias, entregado a las más arduas investigaciones, descubre el modo de dar vida a un ser construido a partir de restos de cadáveres, pero, tan pronto lo logra, el resultado repugna a su conciencia y le invade el arrepentimiento. Sin embargo, no puede evitar seguir relacionado con su creación, el monstruo que convertirá su existencia en una tragedia...
Mary W. Shelley construyó con Frankestein un libro de complejo encasillamiento; podemos definir claramente qué tipo de narración no es, pero su clasificación definitiva es difícil. En cualquier caso, se trata de una obra maestra de la Literatura, un relato de miedo, de evasión con sucesos escalofriantes, una metáfora, una reflexión, una tesis y, ante todo, un mito eterno.

A orillas del lago Leman, en las inmediaciones de Ginebra. Verano de 1816. Los cuatro cuentos de terror que reúne este volumen evocan la célebre «reunión» de Byron, su médico y los Shelley que dio origen al mito de Frankestein.

• J. W. POLIDORI: El vampiro.
• P. B. SHELLEY: Los asesinos
• M. W. SHELLEY: El sueño.
• LORD BYRON: El entierro.

• Traducción: Jordi Fibla.

LLIBRES INFANTILS I JUVENILS-Antaviana jove-.

On a ship in the Arctic, Victor Frankenstein - ill and tired - tells the story of his sad life to the British man of science, Robert Walton. He speaks, too, about the terrible creature that he made from dead body parts when he was a university science student. He hates this monster, which has destroyed his life.

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