Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin)

Frankenstein

Herausgeber: 1st World Publishing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid. I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight. There, Margaret, the sun is forever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour. There - for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators - there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe. Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes. What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: 1ST WORLD LIBRARY
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781421851549
• ISBN-10: 1421851547
• Artikelnr.: 39104335

Autorenporträt

Mary Wollstonecraft was a British author, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights was born in Spitalfields, London, on April 27, 1759. She is considered one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists of today credit her life and work with having had a significant effect. Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, London, on April 27, 1759. She used to lay outside her mother's bedroom door as a teen to keep her safe. She convinced her sister Eliza to separate from her husband and their young kid in 1784. Wollstonecraft was introduced to Fanny Blood by the Clares, a Hoxton couple who adopted her as their own. She gave Blood credit for widening her horizons. Original Stories from Real Life, her first children's book, was written by her in 1788. In December 1792, one month before Louis XVI was murdered, she fled for Paris. Instead of radical Jacobins, she made friends with moderate Girondins during her time in Paris. Mary Wollstonecraft was disappointed by how the Jacobins treated women in 1790s France. Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft's second daughter, was born on August 30, 1797. During delivery, the placenta broke and caught an infection. In the eighteenth century, childbed fever (post-partum infection) was a common and frequently deadly condition. Wollstonecraft died on September 10th, 1797, from septicemia.

Rezensionen

Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 26.11.2016

Mary Shelley
Nicht mal eines Namens wurde das Geschöpf für würdig befunden, immer heißt es nur die Kreatur oder das Monster, Frankensteins Monster. Der Doktor Viktor Frankenstein hatte einen perfekten künstlichen Menschen schaffen wollen, aber was bei seinem Experiment herauskam, war so abschreckend, dass es nirgends zugehörig sein durfte. Der absolute Outsider.
  Wenn er in ein Dorf kam, fielen die Frauen in Ohnmacht, Steine wurden geschleudert. Das naive und empfindsame Monster floh aufs Land und erklärte der menschlichen Spezies den Krieg. Mary Shelleys „Frankenstein“, erschienen 1818, ist ein revolutionäres Buch, das von Identität und Freiheit handelt. Zur Kultfigur wurde das Monster 1931 durch den Film von James Whale – der als Homosexueller ums Außenseiterdasein wusste. Da fingen die Menschen an, sich ihrer eigenen Monstrosität bewusst zu werden. Und so etwas wie sympathy for the monster zu empfinden.
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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein. dtv, 304 Seiten, 8,90 Euro.
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