Mladý švajčiarsky vedec Viktor Frankenstein pri štúdiu prírodných vied i starých alchymistických diel spozná tajomstvo vzniku života a stvorí umelého človeka obrovských rozmerov, odolnosti a sily. Keď sa kolos dá do pohybu, vedec sa zľakne vlastného výtvoru a ponechá ho svojmu osudu.
Poslední člověk je vedle Frankensteina patrně nejlepším dílem Mary Shelleyové. Apokalyptický román se odehrává koncem jednadvacátého století, kdy je země zasažena neznámou pandemií, jež se rychle rozšíří po celém světě a téměř vyhubí lidstvo.
Kdo se dnes začte do příběhu Frankensteina a jeho uměle stvořeného „Adama“, ponoří se nejen do rané science fiction o oživení netvora, ale také do znepokojivého psychologického příběhu. Bude prožívat drama plné napětí, ovšem zároveň si klást otázky o odpovědnosti člověka za vlastní činy, o lidské spravedlnosti, soucitu i nelítostné nechuti k jinakosti.
Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein is the foundation of modern SF, fantasy and horror fiction, was born to the writer William Godwin and social campaigner Mary Wollstonecraft. This new, special collection brings together extracts of her novels and short stories, with an emphasis on the supernatural.
After many more days and nights of study, I discovered exactly how life was created. With this knowledge I became the first man in history to have the power to create life from death.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...
A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch.
Two centuries after its original publication the most complete Frankenstein ever compiled.
Victor Frankenstein wants to make his own creature from stolen body parts. But when the creature is finished, Frankenstein is shocked by his creation and runs away. Lonely and angry, the creature plans to kill his maker and all the people that Frankenstein loves.
Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of the dead - but whose botched creature causes nothing but murder and destruction.
