Frankenstein
内容简介
"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.
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作者简介
玛丽•雪莱（1797—1851）
英国著名小说家，以《弗兰肯斯坦》闻名于世，被誉为“科幻小说之母”。生于书香门第，父亲是哲学家，母亲是激进的女权主义者。玛丽•雪莱后与浪漫主义诗人珀西•雪莱私奔。创作《弗兰肯斯坦》时年仅十九岁。
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读书文摘
如果你所从事的研究有可能使你冷落别人，使你丧失生活的情趣，不想体验那种纯真质朴的生活乐趣，那么，你的研究就是不正当的，换句话说，你就不应该在这种研究上耗费心思。如果人们一直遵循这一准则，无论如何不让任何事业破坏自己家庭的宁静和亲善，那么，希腊人就不会遭受奴役，凯撒就不会使他们的国家蒙难，美洲的发现也不会那么突然，而墨西哥帝国和秘鲁帝国也不会灭亡。
我只要求一个女人，一个和我一样狰狞的女人。这要求不高，我能得到的也只能是这个了，我会知足。不错，我和她都是妖怪，和全世界都有隔阂。但也正因此，我们会更加互相依靠。我们的生活不会幸福，但也不会受到伤害
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