Mini Classics. Frankenstein

Classics

An accessible and powerful retelling of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece.

Young Dr. Frankenstein has an extraordinary dream: to give life to a creature assembled from pieces of corpses. But when his creation comes alive, Frankenstein is horrified by the result and abandons it. The creature, however, is alive. It feels. It thinks. And it suffers from being rejected.

  • A pocket-sized, illustrated edition that brings young readers closer to one of the most unforgettable stories in world literature.
  • Retold by a bestselling author, translated into more than 30 languages.
Publisher: Einaudi Ragazzi
Target: 8-10
Year: 2015
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

 

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