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基本信息·出版社：Pocket Books
·页码：324 页
·出版日期：2004年05月
·ISBN：0743487583
·条形码：9780743487580
·版本：第1版
·装帧：简装
·开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
·外文书名：科学怪人
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
·A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
·A chronology of the author's life and work
·A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
·An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
·Detailed explanatory notes
·Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
·Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
·A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
作者简介 Mary Shelley(1797-1851) was the daughter of William Godwin, the foremost English writer on the French Revolution and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft. Her life was hard from the start, even before outrage at her nerve for publishing a book so scientifically dissident as Frankenstein while being a woman. Her mother - the author of the proto- feminist work Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) - died only days after Mary's birth. Even her name, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, showed the considerable intellectual weight placed on the young girl from the outset. It was a burden that she retained, eloping and subsequently marrying Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the foremost Romantic poets.
媒体推荐 Spotlight Reviews
Reviewer: B. Chandler (Arlington, Texas)
Victor grew up reading the works of Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Albertus Magnus, the alchemists of the time. Toss in a little natural philosophy (sciences) and you have the making of a monster. or at least a being that after being spurned for looking ugly becomes ugly. So for revenge the creature decides unless Victor makes another (female this time) creature, that Victor will also suffer the loss of friends and relatives. What is victor to do? Bow to the wishes and needs of his creation? or challenge it to the death? What would you do?
Although the concept of the monster is good, and the conflicts of the story well thought out, Shelly suffers from the writing style of the time. Many people do not finish the book as the language is stilted and verbose for example when was the last time you said, "Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy of death."
Much of the book seems like travel log filler. More time describing the surroundings of Europe than the reason for traveling or just traveling. Many writers use traveling to reflect time passing or the character growing in stature or knowledge. In this story they just travel a lot.
This book is definitely worth plodding through for moviegoers. The record needs to be set strait. First shock is that the creator is named Victor Frankenstein; the creature is just "monster" not Frankenstein. And it is Victor that is backwards which added in him doing the impossible by not knowing any better. The monster is well read in "Sorrows of a Young Werther," "Paradise Lost," and Plutarch's "Lives." The debate (mixed with a few murders) rages on as to whether the monster was doing evil because of his nature or because he was spurned?
Reviewer: Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) This is an immortal tale about hybris, love and hate, justice, racism and the responsibilities of scientists.
Its fundamental question is: 'Had I the right to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? ... future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.'
The 'unhallowed arts' of Frankenstein produce a 'filthy mass that moved and talked', but it is nevertheless a human being with normal human aspirations: 'Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.'
But, Frankenstein is a 'painted bird': 'Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on.'
His reaction is : 'If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.'
Mary Shelley's vision of mankind is far from rosy: 'I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty.' 'A man was considered, except in very rare circumstances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few.' 'Was man yet so vicious and base? I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow.'
Her world is one of resentment, racism and jealousy: 'religion and wealth had been the cause of his condemnation.'
But, 'how strange is that clinging love we have of life, even on the excess of misery.'
Frankenstein is the scion of the evil principle, the invention of a man-scientist and a 'painted bird', who is therefore not accepted by the rest of the human race. His reaction is revenge.
This is a great text by an 18 year old.
As Oscar Wilde said in 'The Critic as Artist': 'For when a work is finished it has as it were, an independent life of its own, and may deliver a message far other than that which was put into its lips to say'.
Some texts become even more important and luminous with time, like this masterpiece.
A must read.
编辑推荐 ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
·A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
·A chronology of the author's life and work
·A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
·An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
·Detailed explanatory notes
·Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
·Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
·A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
目录 INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY OF MARY SHELLEY'S LIFE AND WORK
HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF Frankenstein
FRANKENSTEIN
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