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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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Ileana
Apr 24, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Al terminar de leer esta obra, es fácil comprender por qué ha perdurado durante tanto tiempo, a pesar de que ahora el mounstruo de Frankenstein sea relacionado más con un popular disfraz para Halloween que con el absolutamente fascinante personaje de Mary Shelley.
En general esta obra me gustó muchísimo pero me abstengo de ponerle 5 estrellas por dos razones: el doctor Víctor Frankenstein para mi fue detestable, aunque amé la narración que él hace; y en esta edición se encuentran varios errores d
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Francesca
Very interesting book giving you a lot of aspects to discuss.
ForestGardenGal
What happens when a feminist writer named Mary Wollstonecraft marries a philosopher-novelist named William Godwin and they raise a daughter who elopes with a romantic poet who is already married named Percy Bysshe Shelley? Four years later, at the tender age of 21, she writes one of the best gothic novels ever written: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, or the modern Prometheus. Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was truly destined to write this book!

The popular notion is that the book is all about Fran
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Cynthia Feenstra
Love, love love. One of my all time favorites!
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