The Original Frankenstein

Resumen del libro

Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley's amendments and contributions.

For the first time we can hear Mary's sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent of Percy Shelley's contribution some 5,000 words out of 72,000 and his stylistic and thematic changes. His occassionally florid prose is in marked contrast to the directness of Mary's writing. Interesting, too, are Percy's suggestions, which humanize the monster, thus shaping many of the major themes of the novel as we read it today. In these two versions of Frankenstein we have an exciting new view of one of literature's greatest works.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Mary Shelley (1797-1851) es sobre todo conocida por este título, que creó con apenas 18 años y cuando se encontraba de vacaciones en compañía de otros amigos e intelectuales. Lord Byron, el anfitrión, propuso entonces un concurso literario: cada invitado debía escribir una historia con tintes sobrenaturales. De aquí surgió nuestro famoso x{0026}lt;i Frankensteinx{0026}lt;/i , germen de la novela gótica y de terror, pero que Shelley no volvería a cultivar. El resto de su obra transitó entre el ensayo biográfico, la literatura de viajes o la novela histórica (x{0026}lt;i Valpergax{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Perkin Warbeckx{0026}lt;/i ) y la apocalíptica (x{0026}lt;i El último hombrex{0026}lt;/i ).x{0026}lt;p