Lionel Verney est le dernier homme. Accablé par la mort de son père, ancien ami du roi d'Angleterre, tombé en disgrâce et réduit à la pauvreté, Verney abandonne sa jeunesse à l'esprit de revanche et à la violence, avec, tendrement enfouie, une lueur d'amour pour sa soeur Perdita. Arrivent dans le voisinage, au château de Windsor, les enfants royaux, Idris et Adrian. Leur rencontre préside au bouleversement de leurs vies, chacun révélant à l'autre sa véritable nature... Puis, survient la terrible nouvelle : la peste a fait son apparition et progresse. Exacerbant passions et sagesse, le fléau met chaque homme en face de son destin.

Le dernier homme

" "C'est alors qu'à la lueur blafarde et jaunâtre de la lune qui se frayait un chemin au travers des volets, je vis cet être vil - le misérable monstre que j'avais créé". Le savant Victor Frankenstein a réussi à fabriquer une créature d'apparence humaine, mais aux traits si repoussants qu'elle n'inspire que terreur et dégoût. Rejeté par tous, le monstre se cache mais il promet à son créateur une abominable vengeance. Edition adaptée facile à lire : malvoyance ; fatigue visuelle ; troubles de l'apprentissage ; troubles cognitifs ; troubles DYS ; dyslexie ; dysgraphie ; TDA/H ; alphabétisation, FLE. "

Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne

Written by Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Frankenstein is the best-selling horror classic about an experiment that goes horribly wrong, and a monster who swears revenge on his creator. Swiss student Victor Frankenstein uncovers the secret to bringing life to what is lifeless, and in assembling body parts to create a monster, ultimately sets the stage for his own destruction and that of everything he loves when the monster is rejected by society. Penned as part of a competition between Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori to see who could write the best horror story, Frankenstein is resonant with themes of love, friendship, hubris, and fear. It presents the epic battle between man and monster, showing that man is not always capable of controlling that which he creates. HarperPerennialClassics 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.

Frankenstein

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 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 est un roman original à plus d'un titre. Sa première version, publiée sans nom d'auteur, a été écrite par une jeune femme de 19 ans. Le livre est considéré, en outre, comme le dernier roman gothique et comme l'un des tout premiers romans de science-fiction. Il raconte l'histoire d'un "savant fou", Victor Frankenstein, qui, par ambition démesurée, en vient à créer un être humain à partir de cadavres et d'une "étincelle de vie". Ce sera, hélas, le point de départ de nombreux malheurs...

Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne - Extraits

Dans ce roman situé à la fin de la guerre des Deux-Roses, Mary Shelley relate les aventures de Richard d'York, qui, forcé de prendre le nom de Perkin Warbeck pour fuir son ennemi Henri VII, tente de conquérir le trône d'Angleterre. Ce roman méconnu est traduit ici pour la première fois en français.

Les Aventures de Perkin Warbeck

The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the southern coast of Cornwall. Treby (by that name we choose to designate a spot, whose true one, for several reasons, will not be given, ) was, indeed, rather a hamlet than a village, although, being at the sea-side, there were two or three houses which, by dint of green paint and chintz curtains, pretended to give the accommodation of "Apartments Furnished" to the few bathers who, having heard of its cheapness, seclusion, and beauty, now and then resorted thither from the neighbouring towns.

This part of Cornwall shares much of the peculiar and exquisite beauty which every Englishman knows adorns "the sweet shire of Devon." The hedges near Treby, like those round Dawlish and Torquay, are redolent with a thousand flowers: the neighbouring fields are prankt with all the colours of Flora, --its soft air, --the picturesque bay in which it stood, as it were, enshrined, --its red cliffs, and verdure reaching to the very verge of the tide, --all breathe the same festive and genial atmosphere. The cottages give the same promise of comfort, and are adorned by nature with more luxurious loveliness than the villas of the rich in a less happy climate.

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the author's original intentions than the heavily revised 1831 edition, edited by Shelley, in part, because of pressure to make the story more conservative. Many scholars prefer the 1818 text to the more common 1831 edition.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.

Le dernier homme

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