Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus / Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.

Mary Shelley was only eighteen when she began to write Frankenstein. She eloped to the continent in July 1814 with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In 1816, now married, they spent the summer with Lord Byron near Geneva, during which time she began to write her novel which came about as the three-some amused themselves by reading and writing ghost stories. Her story of Frankenstein, a student of natural philosophy, who tries to impart life to a creature constructed from collected bones, is not a study of the macabre as such, but rather a study of how man uses his power through science to manipulate and pervert his own destiny.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.

Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, tries to create a living being for the good of humanity but instead produces a monster. This edition includes an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle.

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.