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Publisher: Alma

Author: Mary Shelley

ISBN: 9781847497871

Year: 2019

Format: Paperback

Fiction, Horror

Transformation by
Mary Shelley

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$ 250.00 mxn

Transformation by

Mary Shelley

Summary

Having frittered away his family s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature approaching from the sea, with whom he makes an infernal bargain to exchange bodies, with momentous consequences.

First published in 1831 and here presented with the supernatural stories The Evil Eye and The Mortal Immortal , the chilling Gothic tale Transformation is a paragon of the genre by the author of Frankenstein.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville