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'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a nightmare in 1816 when she was only eighteen, became a modern myth. It is a disturbing and dramatic exploration of birth and death, creation and destruction, and one of the most iconic horror stories of all time.

If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. Scientist Victor Frankenstein, is determined to create intelligent life. He works night and day on his experiment until at last he succeeds. Only then does he realize that what he has created is a monster. Abandoned by its maker and rejected by everyone it meets, the monster sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everything he holds dear.

«Frankenstein es una obra apretada de pensamiento, entrecruzada de ideas, cargada de vivencias y contradicciones personales que parecen flotar en ambivalencias, pero es un fiel reflejo de lo que la autora debía ser cuando la escribió. Es cierto que adolece de los fallos propios de la juventud: la capacidad intelectual del monstruo es espectacular, las coincidencias favorables para él son excesivas, la historia de los De Lacey resulta demasiado extensa, y el frágil dominio del lenguaje de la autora se demuestra constantemente en las múltiples ocasiones en que Víctor «no puede escribir sus emociones» o «no puede narrar los horrores». Cierto es también que los motivos o las causas quedan generalmente sin explicación, pues en los momentos cruciales Víctor se desmaya o duerme.»