Frankenstein
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker.,,Mary Shelley’s chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a nightmare in 1816 when she was only eighteen, became a moder….Read More
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