Frankenstein (Annotated)

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Annotations This book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Juan Acevedo The frustration and sadness of Mary Shelley is overwhelming. At the age of 18 he wrote one of the most brilliant works of universal literature. She was a woman and could not sign the work with her name. No one believed that this fantastic and mysterious story about the return to life of a mechanical and threatening creature, lonely and abandoned, had left the mind of a woman. They only agreed to edit it in January 1818, two years after writing it, without a signature and with an introduction by their partner, the famous poet Percy B. Shelley. When it is 200 years since the publication of Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, the British author who is a journey through the pain, death, betrayal and love that marked the life of this brave and transgressive woman in the early nineteenth century . "Free yourself and look for your own voice." The advice of his father never left this young Mary Shelley, born in London in 1797 and raised in a family atmosphere little given to feelings and emotional needs, but marked by a passion for books and philosophy. Mary Shelley makes a portrait about this orphan girl; his mother, the philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, died ten days after she was born, and she transferred all her orphanage and solitude to that literary creature that has since inspired writers, filmmakers or playwrights. Young Mary Shelley is seen writing her first words sitting on the grave of her mother, a feminist and radical woman, who decisively influenced her daughter's thoughts, curiosity about science and galvanism, about the possibility of creating life from death. "Here I feel your embrace. It's my sanctuary, "the author consoles herself in the cemetery.

Genre: Fiction / Gothic (fancy, right?)