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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Start date: October 1, 2011

Finish date: October 31, 2011

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Sep 20, 2015 Roberta rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Premetto che avevo già letto il romanzo da adolescente, e ne ero rimasta delusa perché mi aspettavo un horror, mentre Frankenstein ovviamente non lo è, si tratta di un romanzo gotico ma è stato scritto nell'Ottocento e si sente. Rileggendolo ora, speravo di apprezzare lati diversi del romanzo, ma c'era una cosa che non mi ricordavo: come avrei dovuto già capire dal titolo, il romanzo di Mary Shelley si sviluppa intorno alla figura (lamentosissima peraltro) del creato, il dottor Victor Frankenste ...more

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Oct 24, 2017 Joy Gerbode rated it liked it

Actually, this is just the kind of book I thought I wouldn't really like ... but there was a fascination about the way the story was told that made it hard for me to put down. I found myself a little confused about who was writing the letters at the beginning ... but the story unfolded so I figured everything out. The biggest thing that kept me reading, was the moral dilemma that Frankenstein found himself in when the monster demanded a "wife". Lots of philosophical debate, difficult to wrap one ...more

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