Frankenstein (Wordsworth Classics): Or the Modern Prometheus 

图书信息

Paperback

Publisher:Bantam Classics (1 May 1984)

Language:English

ISBN-10:0553212478

ISBN-13:9780553212471

ASIN:B006U1NJLK

Product Dimensions:17.7*11.7*1.5 cm

Edition: Bantam Classic                                      

内容简介

 我看见那个研究禁忌之术的苍白学生，跪在自己拼凑而成的怪物旁边。我看见那丑陋的人形幻影横陈着，随后，在某种强大机械的作用下，显露出生命的迹象，以一种不安而半活不活的运动微微颤动。一个夏夜的鬼故事，月光下阿尔卑斯山房间里的孤独失眠，以及因与拜伦勋爵和珀西·比希·雪莱讨论科学、电生理学和生命起源而激发的狂野想象——这一切共同催生了玛丽·雪莱心中萦绕不去的幽灵。到了清晨，这个幽灵已化作她浪漫主义杰作《弗兰肯斯坦》的萌芽。

玛丽·雪莱于1816年十九岁时写成的小说《弗兰肯斯坦》（又名“现代普罗米修斯”），以令人不寒而栗的方式揭示了在实验室中创造生命所蕴含的危险潜能。这部属于我们时代的恐怖创世神话，至今仍是史上伟大的恐怖故事之一，也是同类作品中无可争议的经典之作。

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein. 

Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.

作者简介 

玛丽·雪莱出生于 1797 年，她是哲学家兼作家威廉·戈德温以及激进作家玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特的独生女。她的母亲在她出生几天后就去世了。1814 年，她与珀西·比希·雪莱一同离开英国，并于 1816 年在其妻子去世后与他结婚。1823 年，她因丈夫去世而返回英国。雪莱为人所知的是其作品《弗兰肯斯坦》，但她还创作了其他作品，包括小说、传记和短篇小说。她于 1851 年去世。

Mary Shelley was born in 1797, only daughter of William Godwin the philosopher and writer and Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Her mother died a few days after her birth. In 1814 she left England with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and married him in 1816 on the death of his wife. She returned to England inn 1823 after her husband's death. Shelley is best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, but she wrote several other works including novels, biographies and short stories. She died in 1851.