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1) Frankenstein
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Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. As the creature educates itself and learns how cruel mankind can be to something that they deem monstrous, he demands that Victor make him a companion, an Eve to his Adam. When Victor refuses, his...
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Kindly, respected Dr. Henry Jekyll is convinced that all men have two personalities lurking within them. He concocts a drug to separate one man into two personalities and tests it on himself. Enter Mr. Hyde--Jekyll's murderous alter ego--as depraved and vicious as Jekyll is virtuous and kindly. Robert Louis Stevenson's shocking thriller explores the battle between good and evil within ourselves. Can Jekyll overcome Hyde--or will he become Hyde's next...
3) Dracula
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'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house.' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan Harker, a young man from England, about his host. Little does Jonathan know that this is a land where babies are snatched for their blood and wolves...
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p2001
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Pocas veces un libro ha penetrado tanto en el imaginario colectivo y la psicología humana como El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde; incluso hasta formar parte del vocabulario corriente para designar trastornos de doble personalidad.
La historia sigue al abogado Gabriel John Utterson por las calles de Londres, quien, ocupándose de los asuntos de sus ricos y aristócratas amigos, llega a ganar la confianza del Dr. Jekyll-científico obsesionado...
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