Frankenstein (Signature Classics)
For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scavenging body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god. But when he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life--and abandons his creation. The novel that translated the stormy ethos of the gothic novel into the foundation for modern science fiction, Frankenstein is a terrifying story about how monsters--of all kinds--are made.
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Un libro che racchiude amore, pietà, odio e sofferenza allo stesso tempo. Un racconto dentro altri racconti. L'autrice non usa sempre lo stesso termine per definire la creatura realizzata da Frankestein, perché lascia al lettore se definirlo mostro o creatura e quindi definirlo abominevole o averne pietà. Io credo di pensarla come Frankestein: ne ho avuto pietà nel momento in cui la creatura si apre e spiega i suoi primi mesi di vita e l'ho odiat...read more
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