‘You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself.’
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist with an abundance of curiosity, plunders graveyards in order to create life itself out of the bodies of the dead. He was successful in creating life, but his resulting creation was an abomination that he soon rejects. Rejected by Frankenstein and shunned by humanity, Frankenstein’s creation vows revenge and begins a path of destruction.
Written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when she was only nineteen years old, this frightening Gothic tale serves as a warning on the limits of human creativity and continues to fascinate readers to this day.
This book contains the 1818 version of the text which presents Mary Shelley’s original unaltered vision for the novel to the readers.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist best known for writing the influential novel Frankenstein.