Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

from bonniemarjorie

The summer of 1816 was named the "Year Without a Summer" after the eruption of Mount Tambora caused a long and dreary Volcanic Winter. With everyone keeping to the indoors, Mary, her future husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and John Polidori all entertained themselves by telling ghost stories and...

from SeriousGrace

I am glad I had a chance to reread Frankenstein. Such a great book! Victor Frankenstein is a student impatient with a classical education. He becomes fascinated with science and the engineering of humans. Left alone with his "research" Frankenstein creates a man more powerful in strength and size...

from Sean_RMIT

Frankenstein is nothing like the stupid bolt through the neck nonsense touted by Hollywood hacks. Nor is this gothic literature, I genuinely hate this term. Frankenstein stands on its own as an exceptional literary work that if it is anything is a indictment of the cruelty and inequality that exi...

from thornton37814

Victor Frankenstein creates a monster that takes away everything he loves. The book's subtitle, "or , the Modern Prometheus," provides a clue to readers of Shelley's intent in writing the book. The Hogarth Shakespeare series features modern-day retellings of Shakespeare's classics; Frankenstein r...

from marcoguarda

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the story of not one, but two monsters. Frankenstein craves to surpass the petty academics of Ingolstadt by resorting to the most abject of human deeds. He goes ransacking graves for fresh corpses to use in his ultimate experiment-turn dead flesh into a living creat...