Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Luan Santos (Translator)

Frankenstein; o el moderno Prometeo es la gran obra de Mary Shelley, considerada la precursora de la ciencia ficción moderna.

En esta nueva traducción literaria al español europeo, Luan Santos preserva la fuerza poética y filosófica del texto original, manteniendo la estructura y el estilo clásico que convirtieron esta novela en una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal.

Victor Frankenstein, un joven científico lleno de ambición, desafía los límites del conocimiento humano al crear vida a partir de la muerte. Pero su creación —el ser abandonado y rechazado por todos— se transforma en el reflejo trágico de su propio creador.

Entre la belleza de los Alpes suizos y la desolación del hielo ártico, esta historia nos enfrenta a las grandes preguntas sobre la responsabilidad, la soledad, la venganza y el alma humana.

Una traducción cuidadosamente revisada, fiel al espíritu del texto original, ideal para lectores que buscan una edición literaria moderna y respetuosa de los clásicos.

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 8, 2025

About the author

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.

The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.

The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.