A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work
of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions
are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil
stamped into the design Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor
Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new
being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched
creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship,
sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This
chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen
years old, would become the world's most famous work of horror
fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of
human creativity. This edition also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord
Byron and 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by John Polidori, as well as an
introduction and notes Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of
pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped
with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years
later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote
her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were
blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further
tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy.
Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued
to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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