Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein. She wrote other novels, but none achieved the level of success of the science fiction/horror classic. She was married to Percy Bysshe Shelley, the famed poet-philosopher. Frankenstein was originally published anonymously. It was her first novel, and she wrote it at the age of nineteen.
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein inaugura la genealogía de monstruos inquietantemente próximos, producto de sabios creadores o de un suceso trágico, mucho más terroríficos por su componente humano. Con toda su carga de referencias religiosas, científicas y literarias, esta obra es sin embargo totalmente original, avanza hacia la pesadilla, hacia los ojos del monstruo, y entra en él para descubrir una bestia que lee y razona, un infierno de soledad y horror de sí mismo, una tragedia cuyo desenlace no puede ser sino la destrucción de todos los implicados.
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This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by Wendy Steiner, the chair of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Scandal of Pleasure.
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797 in London. She eloped to France with Shelley, whom she married in 1816. After Frankenstein, she wrote several novels, including Valperga and Falkner, and edited editions of the poetry of Shelley, who had died in 1822. Mary Shelley died in London in 1851.