Product Description: Published for the first time in 1824, this masterpiece brings together the best elements from gothic novels, intrigue and psychological character analysis. Hogg wrote this metaphysical novel so that it could be taken for a real story, and he went so far as to insert himself in the story as a secondary character...read more

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Product Description: El amante de Lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterley's Lover, con frecuencia mencionada de manera abreviada, Lady Chatterley) es una novela de 1928 del escritor británico David Herbert Lawrence, también con frecuencia citado de manera abreviada, D...read more

Product Description: Destacado autor de literatura fantÁstica, H. P. Lovecraft es considerado el creador del relato de terror contemporÁneo, en el que al elemento sobrenatural se aÁaden las visiones onÁricas, motivos de leyendas mitolÁgicas remotas y la elaboraciÁn de temas especÁficos de la ciencia ficciÁn...read more

Product Description: Hombres-Lobo / The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains (Spanish Edition)

Product Description: Los veinte relatos de H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) reunidos en este volumen pertenecen a la etapa inicial y mas fecunda de su obra narrativa. Poseen, ademas, el interes complementario de iluminar el nacimiento del fantastico mundo lovecraftiano, poblado por abominaciones cosmicas, dioses olvidados, ritos crueles y suenos abismales...read more

Robert Walton, an explorer, describes his trip to the Arctic in letters to his sister, Margaret Saville, who lives in England. After discussing his preparations for the trip, one of Walton’s letters informs Margaret that his ship is stuck and surrounded by ice. Walton then relates a strange event: As they looked out on the enormous ice field, Walton and his crew saw a gigantic man being pulled by a dogsled. The following day they discovered another, smaller man, desperately ill, adrift on a sheet of ice. Walton writes that he brought the man onto his ship, allowed him to rest, and attempted to nurse him back to health. After a week the man was able to talk and told Walton an incredible story. The man’s name is Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist born in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a member of a wealthy family concerned with humanitarian issues. Victor goes on to relate his story to Walton, who writes it down as Victor speaks, making a record of Victor’s story, to be sent as a letter to Margaret Saville, Walton’s sister. Victor tells Walton that, as a boy, he was always fascinated by science and alchemy and he eventually attended the University of Ingolstadt to study natural science. At the university he focused all his attention on experiments designed to create life. After months of exhaustive study, Victor constructed a huge creature from parts of human cadavers. He then discovered a method of bringing it to life. However, when the creature opened its eyes, Victor was horrified by his monstrous-looking creation. He ran from his laboratory and became very ill and disoriented for almost two years. During this time, he believed that the creature must have perished. After he recovered from his illness, as he prepared to return home to his family, Victor learned that William, his seven-year-old brother, had been murdered. Justine Moritz, a young woman the Frankenstein family had adopted, had been accused of the crime. But Victor refused to believe that Justine committed the murder. Instead, he suspected that his creature wasn’t really dead, and was responsible for the horrible crime. However, after Victor returned to Geneva, Justine was tried, found guilty, and hanged. Victor explains to Walton that he felt responsible for William’s murder and Justine’s execution. Guilt-ridden and desperate to be alone, he climbed into the mountains, where he encountered the creature. The creature told Victor that he had survived for the past two years, hiding out in the woods and eating nuts and berries. Lonely and miserable, he realized that he was repulsive to other human beings. In the forest, though, the creature discovered a gentle peasant family living in a cottage; by secretly observing them, the creature learned to read and write. Then, in his jacket pocket, the creature found Victor’s journal and read of the experiments that led to his creation. Enraged, he concluded that it was Victor Frankenstein who was responsible for his misery. After relating his story, the creature demanded that Victor re-create his experiment and construct another creature. The creature explained he was desperate for a companion who would not find him repulsive. If Victor does as he asks, he will go away with the new creature and never bother Victor again. Although wary of the proposal, Victor says he reluctantly agreed to the creature’s request.