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

"Frankenstein" is a novel written by Mary Shelley, published in 1818 by a small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding. Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote the novel, following "late in the night" literary games with her lover and future husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron at the latter's residence near Lake Geneva during the summer of "the year without summer" (the consequence of the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora) . "Frankenstein" is a gothic novel with romantic overtones whose creature became more famous than its author. Discover Frankenstein with an original preface and biography in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

Frankenstein

Traduction de Hannah Betjeman.  Dossier pédagogique de Cédric Hannedouche. Lors d'un voyage au pôle Nord, Robert Walton vient en aide à Victor Frankenstein. L'homme lui raconte alors son histoire. Passionné de sciences, il a réussi à créer la vie à partir de cadavres. Effrayé par sa propre création, l'homme prend la fuite. Toutefois, le dangereux monstre est prêt à tout pour que le scientifique lui crée une compagne. Écrit par la romancière anglaise Mary Shelley, Frankenstein est le premier roman de science-fiction : un incontournable du genre !   Groupements de textes :  1. Le savant fou en littérature 2. Créatures monstrueuses.

Victor Frankenstein a travaillé sans relâche pour découvrir le secret de la vie. Jour et nuit, il s'est enfermé dans son laboratoire secret. Jour et nuit, il a fait les expériences les plus incroyables, les plus atroces. Et voilà qu'au moment de réussir, tout s'effondre. La créature à laquelle il a donné vie est un monstre. Horrifié, le savant s'enfuit abandonnant la créature à elle-même. Grave erreur ! Seule, mal-aimée, elle n'aura désormais qu'un but : se venger de son créateur.

Frankenstein ou Le Prométhée moderne (Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) est un roman gothique et considéré a posteriori comme le précurseur de la science-fiction, 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. Ce récit tourne lui même autour de la narration à Frankenstein, par le monstre auquel il a donné vie, des tourments de celui-ci, qui justifient la haine qu'il lui porte. 

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Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne

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

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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The Gothic Trilogy : Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (unabridged versions) in one volume ! Three Classic Gothic Novels in One Book only ! 1) Dracula, 2) Frankenstein, 3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde --all three classics complete and unabridged versions by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson. 

1) Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations.

2) 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. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays.

3) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.

The Gothic Trilogy - Dracula ; Frankenstein ; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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.

Frankenstein - le Prométhée moderne

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