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Frankenstein es una historia en la que Víctor, un joven ávido de conocimientos científicos, se obsesiona por lograr el mayor reto posible en el mundo científico: dar vida a un cuerpo muerto. Su éxito será su condena, la creación de un monstruo estremecedor que, en respuesta a su rechazo por todos se entrega por completo a saciar una sed de venganza hacia su creador, culpable de su desgracia, y hacia todo lo que éste ama, tornando en muerte todo alrededor de Víctor.

FRANKENSTEIN Narra la historia de Víctor Frankenstein, un joven suizo, estudiante de medicina en Ingolstadt, obsesionado por conocer "los secretos del cielo y la tierra". En su afán por desentrañar "la misteriosa alma del hombre", Víctor crea un cuerpo a partir de la unión de distintas partes de cadáveres diseccionados. El experimento concluye con éxito cuando Frankenstein le da vida al monstruoso cuerpo. Víctor Frankenstein, que comprende en ese momento el horror que ha creado, rechaza con espanto el resultado de su experimento y huye de su laboratorio.

Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Purporting to be the record of an explorer, it tells of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward student of science, who builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified by what he has done, he abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast for his horrific appearance, learns language and becomes civilized. In time, he attempts to join society but is rejected because he is assumed to have murderous intentions.

Esta adaptação do romance Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, para o formato de audiolivro é marcada pela densidade do áudio. A trilha sonora, composta por uma variada gama de sons e temas remixados, acompanha a ambientação do texto com passagens súbitas de climas de romance e leveza para situações de suspense, terror e medo.

Eager science student Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. Although initially excited that his experiment is a success, Frankenstein becomes horrified at the grotesque being that stands before him and flees. Angered by the rejection, the monster retaliates by taking the lives of those dearest to Frankenstein. The decision to play God torments both Frankenstein and the monster he created until the end of their days.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus** — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 Gothic masterpiece, widely regarded as the first science fiction novel. Robert Walton, an Arctic explorer, rescues the emaciated scientist Victor Frankenstein, who...

In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris and horror.

Mary Shelley tem uma vasta obra de contos e o seu mais famoso é "O mortal imortal", no qual a autora de Frankenstein discorre sobre a imortalidade por meio do personagem Winzy, um fictício aprendiz do filósofo Cornelius Agrippa. Agrippa foi a inspiraçã...

The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Based on the original 1818 first edition. A ship trapped in Arctic ice takes aboard a man half dead from exhaustion, pursuing something across the frozen sea. He agrees to tell the captain how he came to be there. Victor Frankenstein was a student at...

# The Heir of Mondolfo Born to privilege but denied a father’s love, Prince Ludovico has spent his life beneath the shadow of the cold and tyrannical Prince Fernando. Determined to control his son’s future, Fernando intends Ludovico for the church, regardless of the young man’s wishes. But...

The Essential Classics: Volume 7 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Jonathan Keeble, Kristin Atherton, Emma Gregory, and Matt Bates. From the charming and compassionate world of Cranford to the ambitious and tragic tale of Jude the Obscure, this volume is a rich tapestry of human experience. Daniel Deronda challenges notions of identity, morality, and destiny, while Evelina offers a sharp yet humorous commentary on social class and manners.

Frankenstein tells the haunting story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates life through forbidden experimentation—only to recoil from the being he brings into the world. As his creation seeks understanding, companionship, and purpose, Victor is forced to confront the devastating consequences of unchecked ambition. A powerful blend of gothic horror and philosophical inquiry, Frankenstein explores responsibility, isolation, humanity, and the dangers of playing god.

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he create a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death, remorse, murder and horror that only his death will put to an end. Alternately well received and disregarded since its...

Angeline, la protagonista de esta historia, se enfrenta a una historia de amor y desamor, de ilusión y desencuentro. El amor que se ha prometido con Hipólito se empaña, al mismo tiempo que su amistad, casi maternal, con Faustina.

A Monster Story. A Moral Catastrophe. The Birth of Science Fiction. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at eighteen years old during the strangest summer in recent memory — stranded on the shores of Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, during a year of unnatural cold and darkness caused by a volcanic eruption halfway around the world. The ghost story competition Byron proposed that summer produced one entry worth remembering. The result was the first science fiction novel ever written — and one of the most influential books in the English language.

When the alchemist Cornelius Agrippa begins work on a secret elixir, his young apprentice Winzy believes it can cure him of only one thing: his hopeless love for Bertha. In a moment of despair, he drinks it, certain he will wake indifferent to her at last. He does not. Instead, he wakes more...

A beloved classic adult novel skilfully abridged to inspire and engage a new generation of middle-grade readers, from a Waterstones Prize-shortlisted author. "I, Victor Frankenstein, will explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation..." Driven by a boundless...

Victor Frankenstein was only trying to advance the cause of science. How could his experiment have produced such a terrible result? The creature's powers were superhuman. Was there any real chance that Victor could stop the monster before he murdered again?

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness.