Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic Mary Shelley’s deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature’s creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic waste….Read More
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