Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of lite. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new "man". But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself ! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill...

Frankenstein

After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 1415, whose result was to entwine, as it was called, the white and red symbols of rivalship, and to restore peace to this unhappy country.

The day had been sunny and warm: as the evening closed in a west wind rose, bringing along troops of fleecy clouds, golden at sunset, and then dun and grey, veiling with pervious network the many stars. Three horsemen at this hour passed through the open country between Hinckley and Welford in Leicestershire. It was broad day when they descended from the elevation on which the former stands, and the villagers crowded to gaze upon the fugitives, and to guess, from the ensigns they bore, to which party they belonged, while the warders from the near castle hastened out to stop them, thus to curry favour with the conqueror; a design wholly baffled.

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

Considéré comme le tout premier roman de science-fiction jamais publié, Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne de Mary Shelley a traversé les siècles en laissant une empreinte indélébile. On ne compte plus ses résurgences dans la littérature mondiale et les adaptations théâtrales et cinématographiques que cette formidable oeuvre a engendrées.Cette édition est enrichie de somptueuses illustrations réalisées pour l'occasion par Armel GaulmeElle est proposée dans une nouvelle traduction, réalisée à partir de la version originelle de Mary Shelley parue en 1818, et non la version retouchée de 1831, plus répandue.Son traducteur, Maxime Le Dain, est un expert en littérature fantastique, et a notamment oeuvré aux traductions et adaptations de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Alice au pays des merveilles, Scary Stories, et au comics Locke & Key.Précisément 200 ans après sa première publication en France (1821), Bragelonne est immensément fier de rééditer ce chef d'oeuvre de la littérature.

Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne

July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year!

The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal.

Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which I have asked myself, by day and night, for now three hundred and three years, and yet cannot answer it. I detected a grey hair amidst my brown locks this very day--that surely signifies decay. Yet it may have remained concealed there for three hundred years--for some persons have become entirely white-headed before twenty years of age.

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so wearisome to me. For ever! Can it be? to live for ever! I have heard of enchantments, in which the victims were plunged into a deep sleep, to wake, after a hundred years, as fresh as ever: I have heard of the Seven Sleepers--thus to be immortal would not be so burthensome: but, oh! the weight of never-ending time--the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! How happy was the fabled Nourjahad!--But to my task.

Mary Shelley's short stories

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. 

Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823. (from wikipedia.org)

Frankenstein - or the Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley



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Frankenstein ou Le Prométhée moderne est un roman gothique publié en 1818 par la jeune Britannique Mary Shelley, maîtresse et future épouse du poète Shelley.

Le roman est le récit d'une tentative d'exploration polaire par Robert Walton. La majeure partie de ce récit est constituée par l'histoire de la vie de Victor Frankenstein que Walton a recueilli sur la banquise, histoire qui n'est elle même que le cadre d'une narration à Frankenstein par le « monstre », auquel il a donné vie, des tourments subis par celui-ci qui justifient sa haine envers son créateur. Source Wikipédia.



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As "the last man, " Lionel Verney is witness to a plague that destroys mankind in the last days of the twenty-first century. As part of the English ruling elite, Lionel and his family are able to escape the epidemic, but as their numbers dwindle, Lionel is eventually left alone to ponder both his fate and that of the world he knew. First published in 1826, The Last Man is notable for author Mary Shelley's fictional portrayals of her late husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their close friend, Lord Byron. The novel's apocalyptic setting provided the backdrop for Shelley to explore themes of selfishness and brutality alongside of loyalty and love. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Last Man

Le Dr Frankenstein crée une créature, puis l'abandonne pris de remords ou dans la crainte de Dieu.

La dite créature en mal d'amour n'aura de cesse de tenter de découvrir une compagne et pour cela d'harceler son créateur.

Frankenstein - le Prométhée moderne

In the flattest and least agreeable part of the county of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield. Longfield is distant eight miles from any market town, but the simple inhabitants, limiting their desires to their means of satisfying them, are scarcely aware of the kind of desert in which they are placed. Although only fifty miles from London, few among them have ever seen the metropolis. Some claim that distinction from having visited cousins in Lothbury and viewed the lions in the tower. There is a mansion belonging to a wealthy nobleman within four miles, never inhabited, except when a parliamentary election is going forward. No one of any pretension to consequence resided in this secluded nook, except the honourable Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzhenry; she ought to have been the shining star of the place, and she was only its better angel. Benevolent, gentle, and unassuming, this fair sprig of nobility had lived from youth to age in the abode of her forefathers, making a part of this busy world, only through the kindliness of her disposition, and her constant affection for one who was far away.

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