书名：Frankenstein科学怪人

作者：Mary Shelley 

出版社名称：Simon & Schuster 

出版时间：2004 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780743487580 

商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.5 x 17 cm 

包装：平装

页数：352（以实物为准） Frankenstein《弗兰肯斯坦》（科学怪人）是英国知名女作家玛丽·雪莱在1818年创作的小说，被认为是世界第1部真正意义上的科幻小说。至今已被翻译成100多种语言，并多次被改编成电影和戏剧。小说在传统哥特式小说的基础上融合了浪漫主义元素和现实主义元素，采用书信体和记叙体相穿插的形式，创作手法特别。小说中的怪物形象在西方家喻户晓，它还为英语添加了一个新的单词“Frankenstein”（意为“作法自毙的人”）。

Frankenstein《弗兰肯斯坦》讲述的是年轻的科学家弗兰肯斯坦为追求和利用当时的生物学知识，从停尸房等处取得不同人体的器官和组织，拼合成一个人体，并利用雷电使这个人体拥有了生命。巨人虽然天性善良，向往美好，渴望感情，但是，由于面貌丑陋，被社会视为怪物，当作巨大的威胁，处处碰壁。他要求弗兰肯斯坦为自己制造一个配偶，答应事成后与其双双远离人间。弗刚开始应允了怪物，但在接近成功之时，担心怪物种族从此危害社会，于是毁去了女性怪物。苦苦企盼的怪物疯狂报复，杀死弗的未婚妻等几个亲人。弗发誓毁掉自己的作品，追踪怪物一直到北极地带，受尽折磨后病逝，而怪物亦自焚而死。

The story is well known: Driven by ambition and an insatiable thirst for scientific knowledge, Victor Frankenstein—the “Modern Prometheus” of the original subtitle—fashions what he believes to be the ideal man from a grotesque collection of spare parts, breathing life into it through a series of ghastly experiments. When the monstrous results of his hubris become clear, the scientist and his creation are pitted against each other in a mortal pursuit that takes them to the ends of the earth.

玛丽·雪莱，英国小说家，浪漫主义诗人波西·比希·雪莱（Percy Bysshe Shelley）的第二任妻子。她的是原名玛丽·戈德温（Mary Godwin），父亲是英国哲学家、小说家威廉·戈德温（William Godwin），母亲是知名的女权主义者玛莉·渥斯顿克雷福特（Mary Wollstonecraft）。因其1818年创作了文学史上首部科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》（或译《科学怪人》），而被誉为科幻小说之母。

Born in London,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-51) was the daughter of William Godwin, a noted social theorist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the leading literary women of the day. Her mother died soon after her birth, and Mary was raised first under the care of servants, then by a stepmother, and finally in the rarefied intellectual atmosphere of her father’s circle. In May 1814, she met Percy Bysshe Shelley and, in July of the year, moved with him to the Continent. Two years later, after the death of Shelley’s wife, the poet and Mary were able to wed. It was in Switzerland in 1816, as a result of a story-writing competition among the Shelleys and Lord Byron, that Mary began Frankenstein, her first and most famous novel. Published in 1818, it was followed by such works as Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), and Falkner (1837). In 1822, after the death of her husband, she devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and the securing of his right to the Shelley family title.